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The baby’s already been tossed my friend. The police actually have a terrible record when it comes to handling the crime of rape. They downplay it, deprioriti
by adamsea 6y ago
The baby’s already been tossed my friend.
The police actually have a terrible record when it comes to handling the crime of rape.
They downplay it, deprioritize it, etc. Read about the massive backlog of rape kits.
Literally - rape crimes that are reported to the police, and that they deprioritize or ignore.
https://www.rainn.org/articles/addressing-rape-kit-backlog https://www.rainn.org/articles/addressing-rape-kit-backlog
- adamsea 6y agoI'd love to hear from the folks who downvoted this, so I could improve this comment. Because there's a lot of empirical evidence that police departments (and our court system, to be fair - it's a social issue) historically have not handled rape cases well. So, I'm all for reasonable discussion and receiving feedback about what was unclear or counterproductive in what I said. But, I encourage future readers to take silence as a sign that people really didn't have any facts or logic to back up their side of the argument ; ). Even though that might be a bit unfair, since it's not as if everyone is on here all the time. But I think it's important for technologists - scientists, engineers, etc - to embrace their role in society at large and the power we have. And part of that involves discussing social issues, as frustrating as some of us might find discussing these non-quantifiable fields. Hey, it can't be worse than having to talk about the latest hot new addition to the JS ecosystem ;)