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Originally Posted by zamler
This applies to all criminal acts not just rape. The police are skeptical as part of their job, both in terms of the accused and accuser. This is now the system works effectively, the moment you artificially give more weight and trust in one direction inequality begins.
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This is not how the system should work, nor how it was designed. The police should take all reports of crimes *very* seriously. When victims are treated as liars, stigmatized, when they have their irrelevant sexual history dragged out and paraded in front of everyone, when they're accused of "asking for it" because of their clothing, then they're far less likely to report a rape. Our system should *not* be one that discourages reporting a crime.