Posted on 11/12/2009 9:41:23 AM PST by reaganaut1
Politically correct Scotland Yard chiefs have stopped using the term 'gang rape' because it is too 'emotive', the Mail can reveal.
Instead officers have been advised to use the long-winded phrase 'multi-perpetrator rape' when describing sex attacks involving three or more culprits. Critics branded the move by the Metropolitan Police an 'affront' to the victims of appalling sex crimes and are preparing to launch a campaign on the issue. Six years ago the Met was at the centre of a similar row over its choice of language to describe 'gang rapes' after a senior officer referred to them as 'group rapes' during an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Some community activists had previously suggested the phrase 'gang rape' had racist connotations.
Details of the latest police terminology are contained in an official Scotland Yard report which reveals a sharp increase in the number of gang rapes in the capital.
New figures revealed there were 93 gang sex attacks in the financial year 2008-9, compared with 71 in 2003-2004. Meanwhile the age of victims has fallen with 64% aged 19 or younger in the last financial year compared with 48% in 1998-9.
Detective Chief Inspector Mark Yexley admits in his report on 'Multi-Perpetrator Rape and Youth Violence' for the Metropolitan Police Authority that the 'common parlance for this offence is ‘gang’ rape'.
But he adds: 'This is an emotive term - but it is used widely in the public domain. There have been instances in the past where the term ‘gang’ has come to mean different things - either groups known to each other, criminal networks or peer groups.
'Care has been taken with the definition of the term ‘gang’ in this paper. It is however accepted that there is a public perception/understanding of what this term means.
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The victim finds it pretty “emotive” as well. What a bunch of sh!+heels...
Maybe they’d prefer “group make nicey-nice!”
Regards,
Why not refer to the actions of the filth to the victim as..
“Treated like a taxpayer”
do they mean ‘unauthorized mass intercourse’?
“multiple penetration episodes”?
Once you’ve lost your moral compass you’ve lost it all. You can’t think straight. You can’t even speak plain english.
Can’t risk offending Bloods or Crips, now can we?
Group nesting.
Why are they using the term, "financial year"??? What has that got anything to do with gang rape?
It sounds so much better in French - “tournante”.
Most of the links Google pulled up for me were in French, but here’s an old Mark Steyn column:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0802/steyn1.asp
Dont say Bloods or Crips..
it’s “that group that sounds like flood” and “that group which is the first syllable to cripple”.
Or non-consensual group sex.
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