> In the entire history of the hackney carriage (black cab) license - going back to 1662 - I know of only one case of a driver having been prosecuted for rape, about 5 years ago.
Pardon?
John Warboys - a registered black cab driver - was convicted of 12 rapes in 2009, and was thought to have carried out over 100. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Worboys
I could go on but those were the first 3 or 4 links I found, and even those are in the past 5-8 years.
I dont see how some background checks are going to prevent people from raping someone if the opportunity presents itself. Rapists are rapists regardless of what license they have been given by filling in some forms.
And - and I can't stress this enough - they were all caught and prosecuted. The Met Police are saying Uber is making that harder, even allowing drivers to return to driving after they've been charged with an offence.
Can you see the differences and understand why a police force might decide that this operator in particular is a problem?
Yeah, I felt it is pretty weird when the OP claimed that Black Cabs don't rape women (I don't mean the car itself)
What would be a useful metric is: Rape per capita for Uber and Black Cabs. I'm too lazy to search for that, but if someone comes up with the data, he'll have a stronger argument.
Except that in UK approx 95% of such offences are carried out be people with no prior convictions - so you don't weed out that many attackers this way.
Pardon?
John Warboys - a registered black cab driver - was convicted of 12 rapes in 2009, and was thought to have carried out over 100. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Worboys
David perry - a registered black cab driver - was convicted of 2 rapes in 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-32118391
Edward Chapman - a registered black cab driver - was convicted of rape in 2012. http://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/crime-court/black-cabb...
Musie Asgodom - a registered black cab driver in Sheffield (not all black cabs are in London) - was convicted of 2 rapes in 2012 and failed to overturn his conviction. http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/rapist-sheffield-cab-driver-fa...
I could go on but those were the first 3 or 4 links I found, and even those are in the past 5-8 years.
I dont see how some background checks are going to prevent people from raping someone if the opportunity presents itself. Rapists are rapists regardless of what license they have been given by filling in some forms.