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She was raped and relentlessly demanded answers—until the city took her to court for harassment
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So you believe the cops were lying about how long the test results take?
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-rape-kits-are-awaiting-testing-in-the-us-see-the-data-by-state/
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Results shouldn't take this long, the victim is being completely reasonably pissed.
Hardly justifies abusing people such as the clerk who have no power to resolve the issue.
Alright, so they collectively threw up their hands, and instead of devoting resources to help this traumatized person they prosecuted her instead.
Don't tell me they couldn't do anything when they did something.
They seemingly exhausted avenues of investigation and when that was inconclusive they were forced to seek intervention against a person harassing numerous staff members.
They did something, against a person whom could be positively identified snd their actions proved beyond a doubt. Your position is a false equivalence.
Edit: also you seem to be suggesting that individuals including the clerk had power to perform some action but instead chose to sue. This is ridiculous.
The mayor and police chief have the power here, to either address the issues in their police department on a policy level or by investigating the officer that's bad at his job. Did they do anything?
If you read the article first you would know
I did
They covered their butts instead of offering a traumatised woman services.
I know the answer is "it doesn't work like that", and I'm saying it should work like that.
Yes I suppose all police and council members, staff and dispatchers should drop everything for the forseeable future to deal with a case which has little evidence and no prime suspect.
Otherwise they should expect 24/7 harrassment from a nut job.
Why not just... Have case workers that are the main point of contact, and they manage access to services for these people? Encourage trauma therapy, etc?
It's pretty clear this woman was drugged, and she made it home, got hurt and shit everywhere. She needed empathy.
But no, if you can't get a criminal apparently the Justice system has no function. That's broken.
Yea the kind of person that calls dispatch a dozen times a day ranting about conspiracies isn’t going to magically start being reasonable because they have the phone number for a case worker.
Toxicology results do not support this claim.
Last time I got hurt and shit everywhere I didn’t harass innocent people for years about it.
Mental illness is almost certainly at play here and I would be completely unsurprised if the alleged victim were diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar.
Also it’s a justice system not a fucking therapy system.
She needs a straight jacket and a bed pan.
You know what would be justice? The case worker getting them a diagnosis.
So a non doctor decided that the result was negative, and not inconclusive. Some drugs will not test positive after a short time frame. People use these drugs for that purpose.
A case worker being the primary contact, would explain this and funnel people into the care they actually need. If you don't want this, you don't want society to take care of it's citizens.