Rape and the Police

It's one of the first things most rape survivor hear when they talk about what happened.  "You have to report it to the police!" or "Why didn't you go to the cops?"  Yet rape is one of the most underreported crimes in the U.S.

There are a lot of reasons for this.  Shame is a big one.  So is fear.  Fear of being blamed, of not being believed.  In Baltimore, police have been hard at work turning those fears into reality.

The Baltimore Sun reviewed FBI statistics and found that in Baltimore, the...