I'm in America, and while it's true that stalking cases often aren't handled the way they should, we've come leaps and bounds since the 70s and 80s in regards to the police taking stalking seriously. In fact, the Stalking Awareness nonprofit organization SPARC recommends contacting police as one of the first things you should do. And certain states have extremely robust stalking laws, like California.
Ah yea, that bothers me too!
I don't know if you like anime but Baccano has a lot of ethnicities in it and one of the guys is black and chinese mix and he has pale hands but dark skin. Small details but they mean sooo much :)
RE stalking and police: That's good to know. I'm glad there have been improvements and you feel safe going to the police. In the US you can have self-defence too, we can't have any here, not even pepper spray...
TW for stalking
|||||Over here it's terrible, I had severe stalking (he could pick locks and was the landlords son so could and would enter my house both when I was in and when I was out). I told the police and they said they couldn't do much and it would be more traumatic to try to go legal with it when it wouldn't amount to much. They said to just vary my routine so stalkers would have a harder time predicting my routine and to keep a record of everything in case something 'more' happened... And this is after he tried to enter my room at 3am when he thought I was asleep (I knew because the police gave me little alarms to put on the bedroom door). I dunno what much more you can get at that point lol ||||
