The Double Standard Quiz

This quick quiz helps you recognise whether a stalking, harassment, or abuse-related report may have been turned back on you.

It looks for the pattern ClearPath is campaigning on: harm being minimised, while the person asking for help is treated as difficult, unreliable, excessive, or the problem.

If the pattern is strong, the result will explain how to contact ClearPath without sending detailed evidence first. Your answers stay in this browser.

This quiz can help you recognise a pattern that can happen after someone reports stalking, harassment, abuse, or coercive behaviour to police. ClearPath is currently prioritising Derbyshire cases for review, but the guide is for people dealing with this pattern in any police force area.

01 Did you report this behaviour to the police, or try to report it? This includes contacting the police about stalking, harassment, abuse, or coercive behaviour, even if they would not record your report or take further action.
Which police force did you contact? This helps ClearPath distinguish Derbyshire cases from evidence about the same pattern in other force areas.
02 Was the behaviour split into separate incidents? For example, each message, visit, post, threat, or contact was treated alone, so the wider pattern disappeared.
03 Were threats, smears, monitoring, or fixation treated as opinion? This can include being told it was drama, disagreement, free speech, online conflict, or something you should ignore.
04 Were you expected to keep reporting without enough support? For example, no advocacy, adjustments, safeguarding, trauma-informed communication, or help understanding what was needed.
05 Did you have to investigate or organise the evidence yourself? This includes making timelines, collecting screenshots, explaining the same pattern repeatedly, or proving what agencies could have checked.
06 Were you criticised for trying to document what happened? For example, your evidence gathering, distress, persistence, screenshots, or attempts to be believed were treated as suspicious.
07 Were official systems used to keep pressure on you? This may include complaints, threats of action, legal-looking letters, reports against you, or processes used to frighten or exhaust you.
08 Did disability, trauma, or neurodivergence make it harder to be heard? For example, communication needs, distress, shutdown, memory, processing, or overwhelm were misunderstood instead of accommodated.
09 Were you treated as the problem after asking for help? This includes being blamed, dismissed, threatened, warned, arrested, prosecuted, or treated as more concerning than the behaviour you reported.

Private by design

No answers are sent to ClearPath. The quiz runs only in your browser.

Not legal advice

This can help you recognise a pattern, but it cannot replace a solicitor or regulated adviser.

Not case intake

Do not enter detailed personal evidence here. The page does not ask for names or case material.

Campaign tool

The aim is to help people identify the double standard ClearPath is campaigning to name.