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In a small Seattle suburb, a rape investigation sparks a war over speech and power.

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[–] Cypher 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If you read the article first you would know

Snoqualmie police say they’ve already investigated, and even had an outside agency review the case to double check their work

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Cypher 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Cypher 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

It's pretty clear this woman was drugged

Toxicology results do not support this claim.

got hurt and shit everywhere

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 needed empathy.

She needs a straight jacket and a bed pan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

You know what would be justice? The case worker getting them a diagnosis.

Toxicology results

“I reviewed the results but did not see anything of concern,” Bruton wrote in the police report, without noting what drugs were tested or if any came back positive.

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.