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Public Safety

Safer streets, stronger communities, and real accountability in policing — not just warm words from people who have never walked those streets at night.

Women's safety — in Sherrie's own words

Ask any woman about the last year. She has a story.

Mine. Groped on the tube. Followed off a train. Strange men. Strange questions.

It is rising. Every woman I know is feeling it, because police charging rates have collapsed.

This is not the price of being a woman in Britain.

Every woman deserves to walk home without holding her keys between her fingers, on the phone to someone, or carrying a hot drink.

What Sherrie is calling for

  • Mandatory minimum sentences for sexual assault, stalking, and violence against women — no suspended sentences, no early release
  • Charging rates for rape and sexual assault restored to at least 1 in 3 within five years, with named accountability for every police force that falls short
  • Specialist domestic abuse and sexual violence units in every police force, staffed by officers trained to believe and investigate — not dismiss
  • Lifetime registration and electronic monitoring for serious sexual offenders, with automatic deportation for foreign nationals convicted of these crimes
  • Safer streets funding ring-fenced for lighting, CCTV, and visible patrols on the routes women actually walk home

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