{"id":25322,"date":"2026-10-07T11:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/police-routinely-failing-to-investigate-revenge-porn-research-reveals\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T11:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:37:23","slug":"police-routinely-failing-to-investigate-revenge-porn-research-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/police-routinely-failing-to-investigate-revenge-porn-research-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Police routinely failing to investigate \u2018revenge porn\u2019, research reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers launch super-complaint over finding that officers in England and Wales frequently dismiss image-based abuse<\/p>\n<p>Police forces are routinely failing to investigate complaints about the circulation of image-based abuse, previously known as \u201crevenge pornography\u201d, according to research that has triggered a super-complaint over the way such crimes are handled.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers have gathered evidence from 100 people who reported intimate images being shared online without their consent. Their research suggests that image-based abuse is still frequently dismissed or not recognised as criminal offending, despite being described by the former prime minister Keir Starmer as a national emergency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/oct\/07\/police-routinely-failing-to-investigate-revenge-porn-reports-research-shows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4b3b0859927c7f1574f667115c1c0d276a3effbe\/2942_0_4668_3738\/master\/4668.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=541bf82ba3c8edad493b89d579202b6c\" title=\"Police routinely failing to investigate \u2018revenge porn\u2019, research reveals\" \/>Lawyers launch super-complaint over finding that officers in England and Wales frequently dismiss image-based abuse<br \/>\nPolice forces are routinely failing to investigate complaints about the circulation of image-based abuse, previously known as \u201crevenge pornography\u201d, according to research that has triggered a super-complaint over the way such crimes are handled.<br \/>\nLawyers have gathered evidence from 100 people who reported intimate images being shared online without their consent. Their research suggests that image-based abuse is still frequently dismissed or not recognised as criminal offending, despite being described by the former prime minister Keir Starmer as a national emergency. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers launch super-complaint over finding that officers in England and Wales frequently dismiss image-based abuse Police forces are routinely failing to investigate complaints about the circulation of image-based abuse, previously known as \u201crevenge pornography\u201d, according to research that has triggered a super-complaint over the way such crimes are handled. Lawyers have gathered evidence from 100 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/police-routinely-failing-to-investigate-revenge-porn-research-reveals\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Police routinely failing to investigate \u2018revenge porn\u2019, research reveals<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25322"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}