If we don’t change the attitudes of those responding to rape victims, if we allow categories like “unfounded” and “exceptionally cleared” to inflate solve rates, if we continue to have district attorneys declining to prosecute and judges making public statements about why the victim’s behavior is problematic, legislation alone will not make a difference. Further, I still do not understand why so much legislation is needed as a kind of “watchdog” to fix a problem that shouldn’t exist in the first place. Rape cases should not need extraspecial support to make sure law enforcement do their job
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