Tokyo Has A Huge Problem With Perverts On Public Transportation And The Police Want Women To Fight Back Using An App Called DigiPolice (Has Been Downloaded Over 250,000 Times Since It’s Release 2 Months Ago)
Tokyo Has A Huge Problem With Perverts On Public Transportation And The Police Want Women To Fight Back Using An App Called DigiPolice (Has Been Downloaded Over 250,000 Times Since It’s Release 2 Months Ago) from r/Damnthatsinteresting
- Digi Police, a free smartphone app created by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, is aimed specifically at protecting victims of sexual misconduct in crowded places.
- If a person faces unwanted groping on a packed subway, they can proceed to activate the app, which either blasts a voice shouting “stop it,” or produces a full-screen message saying “there is a molester. please help,” to show to other passengers.
An app in Japan specifically aimed at scaring off molesters is apparently massively succcessful in the country, according to AFP News.
So, how does the app work?
Let’s say a person faces unwanted groping on a packed subway. They can proceed to activate the app, which either blasts a voice shouting “stop it,” or produces a full-screen message saying “there is a molester. please help,” to show to other passengers.
In Tokyo, there were almost 900 groping and other harassment cases on trains and subways reported in 2017, according to data from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
As Akiyoshi Saito, a certified social worker in Japan, told AFP, groping can occur anywhere with crowded trains.
Q: Can someone explain the purpose of this app? Is it not easier to be vocal then to grab your phone, open up an app and activate it?
A; No, often it’s not. Many girls and women struggle with asking for help and drawing attention to a groper. Just what I think, but when you’re the target of an attack you’re shocked in the first moment, don’t really know how to react and how to ask any bystander around you for help. An attacked person may not be in the mental state to “rally the people” and convince them an attack (that might already be over) has happened. “Just” pushing a button sometimes may be easier.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/23/national/social-issues/stop-tokyo-police-anti-groper-app-becomes-smash-hit-japan/
Victims are often too scared to call out for help, she said. But by using the SOS message mode, โthey can notify other passengers about groping while remaining silent.โ […]
โMolesters tend to target those who appear shy and reluctant to lodge a police complaint,โ said Akiyoshi Saito, a certified social worker who supported some 800 former molesters during a rehabilitation program.
Unique to Asia?
Seems to be where ever men and women strangers are in close proximity.
A few videos I found with a quick search
Same all female trains but in Rio de Janeiro
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