Last night I got assaulted and robbed on my way home. I’m physically ok but mentally pretty shaken up. A million things crossed my mind, from the increase in poverty in the city, the lack of social mobility, to targeted gender based violence across the country. I don’t want to feel unsafe walking home from the station. I don’t want to have a life littered with multiple incidences of different kinds of assault from men. I don’t want to live in fear, I’m angry. How many times can something be an “unlucky situation”, a “wrong place wrong time”, a “bad egg”, an “opportunistic crime”. I wasn’t going to post this in the same way I didn’t want to report it to the police. But it’s important we have stats to show the true extent of the situation.