Labour mayors back plan to make police record misogyny as hate crime

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Stella Creasy believes amendment to domestic abuse bill would make police take misogyny more seriously
Labour’s metro mayors have united behind a parliamentary proposal from Stella Creasy to force the police to start recording misogyny as a hate crime.
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, Steve Rotheram, mayor of Liverpool city region, and Dan Jarvis, mayor of Sheffield city region, are backing an amendment to the domestic abuse bill tabled by the Labour backbencher Creasy, which she believes will lead to police forces taking domestic abuse more seriously. Continue reading...

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