Anti - disability bullying and hate crime part 2

 A lot of people think that bullying and hate crime just happens in schools, which is not always the case. Even though I have not faced bullying in colleges, workplaces etc that does not mean it is does not or has not happened elsewhere. Although I have faced hate crime on the streets, and I guess it could happen in pubs etc.

Learning from the past I think the future needs to be where we need to teach main stream people around learning disability and mental health awareness, bully and hate crime is one of them where we need to be asking why people with disabilities and mental health face hate crime and bullying.

This where people who commit crime on these, people whether they are children, teenagers, adults and even the elderly is because we are classed as vulnerable, we are less likely to report it or if we do we are less likely to believed and understood in the way the police can understand us.

I’m no professional but by a guess those who commit hate crime and even bullying know the minds of people with disabilities, therefore choose places where’s no CCT cameras and where they are less likely to be seen, knowing that the victim is going to find it hard to explain to people they know and the police.  Therefore, they know it is a very slim chance someone the victim knows is likely to see what happens.

This is concerning because the victim is not intentionally telling anyone but worried, they may be disbelieved and be misunderstood.

This could lead the victim to face emotional stress, nightmares, thoughts of suicide, etc or taking their own lives, which I have faced myself in childhood was back in those days there wasn’t counseling, etc, mainly crimes such as rape and sexual abuse wasn’t an easy one mostly for children because it was the sort of world them children wasn’t supposed to know about these things yet it happened to most them.

Also, it’s like, regardless of how strict adults were with children back then, it was never thought back then that children would murder, which therefore was very rare but it did happen such as Mary Bell in the 60s, then about 25 years on the murder of James Budger, which happened by two teenager boys, then I think child murder started to slowly sadly increase from there, well more so we were more aware then.

I feel it’s important that adults now talk and listen to children more so than ever before, voices need to be heard more, mainly children and young people, even adults really to those who face disabilities and other problems as well.

 

 When a person is not been listened to or disbelieved, the people who have faced them with hate crime may commit thousands of crimes against other people, which for whatever reason the victims may find hard to report for not necessary the same but maybe similar reasons, which hugely concerning how many unknown crimes, etc may have happened. Don’t get me wrong, this may not be necessary the case where some just may have the ability to report them, which these things are unknown but I may even vary, depending on the people who commit the crime and the type victims they chose, I guess.