..my experience of this is that threatening behaviour laws exist. threatening and abusive words or conduct, those...those, you know, offences are already on the statute books. the problem is that women don't know it's available for them, and police officers don't think about it when a woman says, "i was at the bus stop and a man started abusing me "and talking about my body in an unacceptable way." i mean, i can't repeat on camera the things that we heard in taking evidence before my working group in scotland. horrible, horrible stuff that women are expected to listen to, which are of a sexual nature, usually, and which are humiliating and degrading, and which leave women feeling,