Am I Safe... By Thomas the taxi

There has been many posts on here in the past, about the unacceptable rise in serious sexual assaults.
Unacceptable to us and the public but not, it would seem, to TfL and LT&PH.


We have seen John “I sleep very well at night, thank you very much!”  Mason, spin the 54% rise in serious sexual assaults including rape, into a 17% decrease, when compared to figures pre PHV licensing. 
(In his latest email to the RMT Chair, Paul Walsh. See here)


TfL, LT&PH and even the Mayors office and staff (both past and present), have distanced themselves from these statistics.


Night after night, we see minicabs openly touting to a point where it has become completely out of control. 


Where/how do you start to describe the free for all that happens late at night on the streets of our capital? 


The Anderson Shelter's staff have posted many videos, gained at great risk to their own security, showing touts both licensed and unlicensed, encouraging young people (Touting) into vehicles with blackout windows, central locking ect. In fact people are being put at risk outside virtually every nightclub in London.


TfL state that these people (Touts as apposed to predators) are being captured at a rate of under 4 a week (figure based on 590 revocations over last three years supplied by John Mason). 
That gives these touts a 70,000-1 chance of being pulled up by any kind of authoritative body. The reason why they do it in such large numbers. 


And its getting worse...


Now we have the news that from the 31 May 2011, Camden Council owing to latest budget cuts, are to scrap on street enforcement of any kind which, in our opinion will lead to a complete free for all in the borough.


TfL, LT&PH and the Mayor have just past the buck. They don't do anything other than the STaN advertising campaign at Christmas, which in fact gets a smaller budget every year. As the rape figures go up so the budget spend goes down... 

REMEMBER BORIS, PETER AND JOHN, RAPE ISN'T JUST FOR CHRISTMAS!

Rape shatters the lives of both victims and their families. 

Worries of pregnancies and even worse HIV/AIDS. 

Virtually all minicab related attacks can be associated to lines of touts left unabated outside night venues.

Ignorance, arrogance, spin and misinformation. 

The Haven crisis centers (NHS funded) and the Suzy Lamplugh Trust will confirm that 60% of all rapes and serious sexual assaults do not report their attacks. That would mean (based on figures currently available for 2009/10) that annually 330 such attacks take place. 
Detection and conviction rate, 9 in 2 years, is a complete disgrace.


I have recently come across a new app for the iPhone called Am I safe. This product will be available to the public shortly. Please watch this short promotional video.

‘Am I Safe?’ is a newly designed mobile phone based system which allows Taxi private hire vehicle’ passengers to check whether the vehicle they are about to get in to, is a genuine licensed Taxi/Licensed Private Hire or not. 


It not only lets them know this information, it also keeps a record of the search making both the driver and passenger traceable should anything untoward occur. 
We also can then pass on illegal taxi registration trends to the legal authorities to take action. 

It would be interesting to see what our readers think of this app, bearing in mind that Peter Hendy, John Mason, and Boris Johnson are turning a blind eye to this ever increasing problem.

Disclaimer:
The Anderson shelter is in no way connected to the production of this third party app.