Cynic posted
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>I have little doubt that on average there is a greater risk of a male
>committing a .ual assault than a female. Therefore a woman taxi
>driver presents less risk to a lone passenger than a man. But what is
>also true is that the risk of being assaulted by *any* taxi driver is
>very small indeed - sufficiently small that there is no need to take
>steps to reduce it further.
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The London authorities (TFL etc) would disagree with you here. For
several years they have been running various campaigns to persuade lone
women not to travel with male cabbies, and also to introduce a stricter
regime around who can work as a minicab driver. Their theory seems to be
a variant of the Great Paedophile Conspiracy; namely, that rapists are
specially drawn to work as taxi drivers, because it gives them
opportunities to .; and therefore special measures have to be taken
to exclude them from it.
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