Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs

Sarah Tofte, Human Rights Watch: Every two minutes, someone is raped in the United States. Every year, more than 200,000 rape victims, mostly women, report their rapes to police. Most consent to the creation of a rape kit, an invasive process for collecting physical evidence (including DNA material) of the assault that can take up to six hours. What most victims don't know is that in thousands of cases, that evidence sits untested in police evidence lockers.

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If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.

Statistics show...9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape!

Statistics show...9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape!

Just ask Clayton Williams

she was asking for it

Every year, more than 200,000 rape victims, mostly women, report their rapes to police

What an awful statistic.

What an awful statistic.

Too many reporting their their rape?

(that's a joke, btw)

If you didn't end up physically really hurt or pregnant, who would want to go thru the additional ordeal of being grilled on the witness stand by some low life defense attorney who will always try and make it look like the victim's fault. Or that she asked for it, whatever. In some cases it's probably not worth reporting to the police.

some low life defense attorney...

Like the attorney for the Duke Lacrosse players?

Most defense attorneys just broker plea bargains that benefit the prosecution as much as the defendant. By far most cases that go to court end up with a guilty verdict. Defense attorneys are an indispensable part of the system.

Defense attorneys are an indispensable part of the system

That's a gross understatement. They are required by the Constitution.

Mostly women?

There are more rapes in prisons than outside.

What does does that say about our Government and its bureaucracies?

"Every year, more than 200,000 rape victims, mostly women, report their rapes to police


What an awful statistic."

If you think that's bad, keep in mind that that is the number of REPORTED cases, how many cases are unreported?


Mostly women?

Posted by rightisright

It jumps out at you, doesn't it? You don't think men get raped? There is probably more underreporting in this group of cases.

If they'd just wear decent clothes they wouldn't excite the menfolk so: www.megamonalisa.com

Most important part of the article:

"...But the backlog stems from more than a lack of money. The dynamics that contributed to the backlog, chiefly a failure to treat rape as seriously as other violent crimes, have been re-created in the way states spend the grants.

In reports to the Justice Department from 2005 to 2007, half the states receiving grants indicated that they were not spending all the money, and those that were did not indicate whether they were prioritizing backlogged rape kits. States are not required to specify how many rape kits they process, and most reports say only how much DNA evidence was tested with the funding, not the types of cases to which the DNA was connected. Thus, evidence from homicides and other violent nonsexual crimes is regularly processed, while rape kits remain untested."

So law enforecement makes a judgment call... i.e. that the rape case doesn't often yield the high profile convictions that other crimes do, so they spend the money on cases that make the cops look good. Nice.

Califchris wont report a rape? Party at her house.

"Califchris wont report a rape? Party at her house."

Is that the only way you can get any? How pathetic.

I am what I am.


YEAH!

And Erectile Dysfunction is a Medical Condition as where ectopic pregnancy is just because their Sluts!

Sincerely

Any Fucking Right Wing Douche who own Dick has mutinied

Their - belonging to them. Their clothes are revealing.
There - a location. There stands the castle of me mudda and fadda.
They're - contraction of They are. They're all a bunch of sluts.

Back to your regularly scheduled rants...

JO


FF

Liberal judges are not even allowing the word 'rape' in the courtroom.

"Liberal judges are not even allowing the word 'rape' in the courtroom."

Of course, you'll experience no difficulty documenting that. Or will you?

Of course, you'll experience no difficulty documenting that. Or will you?

Posted by Doc_Sarvis

LOL, what part? The liberal judges part or the not allowing the word "rape" to be used during rape trials?

I seem to remember the latter, but who knows about the former.

Welcome to another round of 'What is more Likely?'

1) A conspiracy of law enforcement folks are purposely not running expensive tests because they just don't want to be bothered with solving a crime. Of course this can only happen to you if you are a 'protected minority' (which means anything other than white male).

or

2) the male dominated society simply doesn't care about a rape because they have a raping scheduled for later in the evening.

or

3) the police collect statements and evidence and after determining that the case is questionable at best, they don't even waste the money to run the test.



3) the police collect statements and evidence and after determining that the case is questionable at best, they don't even waste the money to run the test.

Posted by Lipzoidial

Wouldn't you like to know that for sure, Lipz? I mean, if it was your daughter?

It is probable that the reason the tests were not made in the preponderance of the cases is that the alleged perpetrator acknowledged that he and the alleged victim had engaged in sexual relations.

In "acquaintance or date rape," the issue is not the act itself but the context in which it occurred, and consent or acquiescence as consent by the alleged victim.

How would you feel if it were your daughter? How would you feel if it were your son? Our society and our courts have gone far afield in defining consent and have ignored human nature in doing so in transferring the burden of restraint entirely to the male.

One recent California case found that the male was under a duty to cease engaging in intercourse in a very limited time frame if the woman "withdrew her consent" verbally after intercourse had commenced. The number of strokes or midstroke cessation is not compatible with the neural transmissions that need to occur to enable the man to terminate his activity.

So-called "date rape" is probably over prosecuted rather than under prosecuted. The female has been relieved of any responsibility for her engagement in the process.

I dated a girl way back in the day (she looked VERY much like Cindy Crawford)

We were messing around one Sunday at my place. There I was just about to do the deed when she spun around and said no.

She blurted out, we can't do this because it is Sunday and God would not like it.


Funny thing, she did not feel the same way about fellatio so it was all good.

"Funny thing, she did not feel the same way about fellatio so it was all good." - 2112

Good thing it wasn't Sidney Crawford instead of Cindy... you'd really have been in for a surprise.

Wouldn't you like to know that for sure, Lipz? I mean, if it was your daughter?

Posted by Hagbard_Celine

I would, I would also want to know why she thought she could go to his hotel room, wearing a mini-skirt, after drinking and think that nothing would happen.

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