Posted on 08/13/2025 6:22:57 AM PDT by Racketeer
Undercover police officers have started a new campaign to crack down on men catcalling female runners - by posing as joggers themselves.
Surrey Police sent two officers out running at rush hour to show the scale of harassment that women are facing.
'These behaviours may not be criminal offences in themselves, but they need to be addressed,' a spokesman for the force said about the patrols.
The campaign, however, has been criticised by free speech activists who said the police should be focusing on enforcing existing laws.
It comes as reporters from the news outlet LBC joined officers on patrol during the evening rush hour in Reigate, Surrey.
During the operation, plain clothes police officers, who were dressed in athletic jogging gear, headed to areas identified as 'harassment hotspots'.
Meanwhile, specialist units waited nearby to intervene at the first sign of abuse.
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Good grief, this is so ridiculous. It’s not illegal, it may be juvenile, but cat calling is a compliment - wait until the guys stop. It’s so depressing.
Is there a field test for testosterone levels?
The old bumper sticker: “Watch my rear end, not hers.”
I don’t deny this is probably true for “invading jihadis” but...this is a slippery slope in my opinion.
One can (and they often do) make this argument about doing this kind of thing against men in general, not just jihadis (that catcalling from men in general can escalate)
The problem I have is that this kind of thing can ooze and seep into any number of groups that society needs “protection” from, such as...gun owners, or...Conservatives.
Don’t get me wrong. This is bad behavior by these men, whoever they are. (and it is telling that they don’t mention it)
But I don’t like seeing it approached in this fashion.
I was thinking it’s probably not muslims doing it. The UK lets the jihadis do pretty much whatever they want to do.
"...Naples is still the favorite Navy city. While CDR Morel was visiting the Navy, picking up his pay, Joan and the children toured castles and museums. Joan was wearing a black sweater and black slacks and found out that the color worn by a woman accompanied by children has a special meaning to Italian men. By the time her husband picked them up, she was more than ready to leave..."
My mom was sick as a dog, but with six kids, she had to watch us while my dad took care of things. So she was a good looking woman, dressed in tight black sweater and tight black capri pants if I recall that day correctly, with her black hair all done up in a bun and her black Jackie Onassis sunglasses on, and took all us kids out with her so she could go shopping.
As we walked down the street, all six of us in tow (BEHIND her, of course) the men started madly catcalling her clicking, whistling, and when I saw this picture some years later, all I could think of was that day in Naples as we all walked like ducklings behind her:
I remember her getting madder and madder, but still standing up straight and boring ahead. Boy, was she ever pissed and gave my dad hell for years after for leaving her that day! (I guess the Italian guys thought she was a hot young widow with a lot of kids?)
And of course, having spent a lot of times in the "Armpit of Europe" myself when I served, the comment "Naples is still the favorite Navy city" makes me roll my eyes...yeah, favorite if you like transvestites, piss-flavored Peroni, and a harbor so toxically polluted if you fell in your skin would melt off!
What ever happened to professionalism?
The tattoos on that “officer” make her look like an ugly skank. The police force are having to hire the bottom of the barrel types.
I think we get it from our long-ago father, Adam...
Who, once he got a gander at naked Eve...well, you know what he chose (we all do).
British girls are just BIG. I don’t know what they eat, aside from beans and toast for breakfast, to get that way.
England is a parity of a country.
Parody even.
“Hello officer, you run like a dork!”
Talk about needing to fire a chief...
Those civil rights fools don’t understand that harassment is not a civil right.
Sexual profiling.
Pull over every red car for potential high speed accidents.
I look like every cheated woman’s ex-husband.
Can’t argue with your points....
Goid point.
“Is cat calling illegal?”
Everything is illegal in England.
Good to see Britian is so crime free they can devote time to this.
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