Got spat on twice now. London has become horrendous for women

I'm a 30yo woman working in London.

Tonight I was waiting to cross a busy street outside a station and some thin dude on a bike slowly rolled passed, looked at me and spat right to my face. I had the reflex to turn away and I tried to run after him. I called the police who was not very helpful except taking details and just being very nonchalant about it.

About a year ago a group of young men on bikes were in a park and one of them literally approached me to spit in my face. Called the police immediately. Got a crime number, of course nothing was done and I didn't even get a call back so I'm really not hopeful on what happened to me tonight.

Am I missing something? Has this become acceptable behaviour? I asked the police that tonight and she said it certainly wasn't "an every day thing".

I really don't stand out in a crowd, I'm an average woman height/build and have blonde hair. How can this have happened to me twice and not be more common? I'm livid this has happened to me twice and must be happening to many women in the city who don't report those disgusting scumb*gs.

EDIT: I have removed the ethnicity of the perpetrator - even if that's just a factual observation - since it's all some comments are focusing on and isn't the point of the post.

this is what women voted for and they deserve it

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