How the grooming gangs scandal was covered up

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : While fears over racial tensions and political correctness have left the state frequently unwilling to protect victims, the same concerns have seen attackers protected.
38% : Across the country, in towns and in cities, on our streets and in the state institutions designed to protect the most vulnerable members of our society, authorities deliberately turned a blind eye to horrific abuse of largely white children by gangs of men predominantly of Pakistani heritage.
38% : As former Labour MP for Keighley Ann Cryer put it, the authorities "were petrified of being called racist and so reverted to the default of political correctness".
37% : In Rotherham, a senior police officer told a distressed father that the town "would erupt" if the routine abuse of white children by Pakistani heritage men became public knowledge.

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