18
Mar
2013
By Calvin at 15:55 GMT, 13 years ago
Have you ever witnessed a crime, say someone getting assaulted in the street, and wondered what to do? Should you intervene, run away, turn a blind eye, tell someone, tell no one, do nothing, make a citizen’s arrest, film the incident on your phone, shout out, call the police, call an undertaker, pray to a god, hail a taxi?
The Crime Prevention Website reckons you should do something positive and if you don’t feel safe or capable of physically intervening then there’s still much you can do to help that person get justice rather than just walking on by.
Witness Confident is an independent charity that is taking a stand against the walk-on-by culture that fuels street violence, feeds fear and fractures communities. They launched on 9 September 2009 (9/9/9) and their plan was and still is to have secured the cultural, legal and practical changes that are needed within the decade to reduce the level of street violence by 20%.
Their charitable objectives are to promote for the public benefit greater public participation in the prevention and solution of crime and to promote good citizenship and civic responsibility in England and Wales by:
- working with communities to engage with and support individuals who witness violent or serious crime;
- providing advice, guidance and assistance for individuals who witness violent or serious crime;
- advancing ways that new technology can enable such greater public participation; and
- undertaking research, influencing practice and policy and informing public perceptions.
We’ve added this post today because we’ve just linked to Witness Confident from our Library. Please circulate their website in your next newsletters and or blogs and visit their site to learn more.
Link Witness Confident: http://www.witnessconfident.org/
Link Street Violence Map: https://streetviolence.org/
Their report Street Violence – the full picture http://www.witnessconfident.org/knowledge/facts/177-violent-crime-news-from-the-street
