The Standard Women’s safety campaigners respond to Met Police StreetSafe tool
An online tool set up by the Met Police to help the public report places where they feel unsafe in the capital, has received more than 3,000 since it was set up.
The force launched StreetSafe in September 2021, following the deaths of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa.
Since then almost three quarters of the reports it has received have been from women.
Most of them related to poor street lighting and CCTV coverage, but the Met said there were also reports of men verbally harassing women, which it had tackled successfully by introducing more police patrols in those areas.
Women’s rights activist Patsy Stevenson, and Anna Birley from Reclaim These Streets discuss the tool, how effective it is, and what more can be done to keep women and girls safe.
In this episode:
- Patsy’s opinion of the StreetSafe tool (1.10)
- Does lighting & CCTV make people feel safer? (1.46)
- Have measures been introduced to tackle culture that lead to abuse? (3.26)
- Anna discusses the StreetSafe tool (4.30)
- Comparison with other resources to report abuse (5.14)
- Education for men and boys to stop abuse (6.52)
- Are things moving in the right direction? (8.23)
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