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Murder, She Blogged: Prime Suspect

TV post by jessmccabe on July 8, 2011 - 1:11pm; tagged British police, detectives, feminist television characters, police, sex workers.

helen mirren in prime suspectAre there any explicitly feminist crime TV shows? Prime Suspect, which ran on UK television channel ITV from 1991 to 2006, is surely a contender, starring Helen Mirren as Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, a female detective breaking into a male-dominated world. It dealt explicitly with issues such as institutional sexism and racism in London's Metropolitan Police force.

It's being remade for US television, with Maria Bello taking on the role of Tennison.

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British police lose when it comes to taking sexual assault seriously

DigiBitch post by Ashley Brittner on March 16, 2009 - 1:30pm; tagged British police, douchebags, John Worboys.
Last week, John Worboys was convicted of one count of rape and seven counts of sexual assault on women he drugged and attacked in his cab. At least 85 women accused him of assault and the number is believed to be even higher than that. Due to a practice by British police to fail to classify women's allegations of assault as crimes, Worboys and who knows how many other predators got away with their crimes, until last year when those complaints were finally taken seriously. Read more after the jump...
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