Thousands of Rapists Free Because of Police Focus on Marijuana

[Texashiker]

Rape should be a priorty over a little fucking weed.

The police and courts simply don't care

Both of yall do know a lot of rape cases come down to a he said she said situation?

Throw in some alcohol, her past history of sleeping around, maybe a past history of making false accusations in school?

Unless there were bruises on her, someone heard her screaming for help,,, it is going to be pretty easy for the defense to create reasonable doubt.

Take that lady who was getting fingered in public a year ago. She was drunk, but when he asked her "do you want me to stop", she says no. Then she wants to file rape charges? Honestly, what jury is going to convict a man of rape when the woman is on video telling him not to stop? The lunacy of the situation is she wanted to file rape charges the next day.

Yes there are women who get raped.

But there are also women who lie. No honey I promise I did not cheat on you, he raped me. All those credit card charges for a hotel room? We were just talking.

Officer investing a rape that happened at a party. Half a dozen people say both were drinking, kissing each other making out and then went to a bedroom. Funny how the rape accusations started after her friends started calling her a slut next week at school.

And yall really think a judge or DA wants to run dozens of those cases through the court room they have little to no chance of getting a conviction on?

 

[shira]

Both of yall do know a lot of rape cases come down to a he said she said situation?

Throw in some alcohol, her past history of sleeping around, maybe a past history of making false accusations in school?

Unless there were bruises on her, someone heard her screaming for help,,, it is going to be pretty easy for the defense to create reasonable doubt.

Take that lady who was getting fingered in public a year ago. She was drunk, but when he asked her "do you want me to stop", she says no. Then she wants to file rape charges? Honestly, what jury is going to convict a man of rape when the woman is on video telling him not to stop? The lunacy of the situation is she wanted to file rape charges the next day.

Yes there are women who get raped.

But there are also women who lie. No honey I promise I did not cheat on you, he raped me. All those credit card charges for a hotel room? We were just talking.

Officer investing a rape that happened at a party. Half a dozen people say both were drinking, kissing each other making out and then went to a bedroom. Funny how the rape accusations started after her friends started calling her a slut next week at school.

And yall really think a judge or DA wants to run dozens of those cases through the court room they have little to no chance of getting a conviction on?

It may be true that there are tons of weak cases in those rape kits. But a relevant question is whether the police have at least made sure that all of the solid rape cases were investigated promptly. If not - and I haven't read anything in the article to suspect that there was any sort of such "pre-filtering" performed by the police - then some police heads should roll.

 

[ElFenix]

It may be true that there are tons of weak cases in those rape kits. But a relevant question is whether the police have at least made sure that all of the solid rape cases were investigated promptly. If not - and I haven't read anything in the article to suspect that there was any sort of such "pre-filtering" performed by the police - then some police heads should roll.

the article is a bit of a hit piece. so, even with good excuse for why the rape kits weren't tested (suspect IDed by different method, for instance), i doubt this article would have provided it.

 

[PliotronX]

so glad i live in colorado.

I voted so hard for prop 67 that the ballot machine shook but as far as frivolous arrests, have you noticed in your locality a more rabid hunger for various traffic tickets? The PD's are starving for revenue now that the cash cow of weed busts is down. Their focus will always be low hanging fruit. Back in the day of mandatory hangings for rapists, the rate of rape was a surprisingly low number. Although now that it's scientifically proven that most women are batshit insane, when it's her word against his we can't have a hanging. There is just a giant mess of tangled dishonesty to the point of real problems never being addressed.

 

[Jhhnn]

It may be true that there are tons of weak cases in those rape kits. But a relevant question is whether the police have at least made sure that all of the solid rape cases were investigated promptly. If not - and I haven't read anything in the article to suspect that there was any sort of such "pre-filtering" performed by the police - then some police heads should roll.

This. The article indicates that actual testing of the kits revealed several previously convicted serial rapists to be among the accused. I wouldn't hazard a guess to put numbers on it, but serial rapists account for a significant part of the problem. Long ago, back in the 70's, rape was an enormous problem in Denver's Capitol Hill neighborhood- the numbers were seriously disturbing. When the police apprehended two perps (2!) the numbers fell back in line with national averages. Each was responsible for dozens if not hundreds of rapes. For them, it was just how they got laid.

The whole song & dance about drugs & diminished capacity wrt sexual consent is bogus. If a woman has sufficient consciousness to speak, she has the capacity to give or deny consent. If she's reduced to semi- or un- consciousness, then she lacks the ability to consent. Drug use is not consent.