Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

by Jon Krakauer

from 2010 through 2012.

Missoula has a much higher proportion of Democrats, for instance, than the state as a whole.

As locals like to joke, one of the things that’s so great about living in Missoula is that it’s only twenty minutes from Montana.

Katie J. M. Baker,

“My Weekend in America’s So-Called ‘Rape Capital,’

Rape is the most underreported serious crime in the nation. Carefully conducted studies consistently indicate that at least 80 percent of rapes are never disclosed to law enforcement agencies.

When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime.

The football team was recruiting too many thugs.

Rape was not the only problem. There was vandalism, there were personal assaults, and there was destruction of property.

The players were pampered ...

If people who kill others, rape others, beat others, and burglarize and rob others aren’t thugs, then what are they?

There is no “cure” for PTSD.

Rapists rely on the silence of their victims to elude accountability.