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Title: 100 serial rapists identified after Detroit finally processes untested rape kits
Post by: xponentialshift on March 18, 2014, 03:36:51 PM
Post by: xponentialshift on March 18, 2014, 03:36:51 PM
http://feministing.com/2014/03/17/100-serial-rapists-identified-after-detroit-finally-processes-untested-rape-kits/
I guess this isn't specifically transgender news, but it definitely applies to everyone in the US. I find it ridiculous that it has taken this country so long to do anything about this major problem. The $35 million budget the government is allotting to this for next year is way too small considering the numbers in the article. If the percentages they found hold up for the national total it means there are over 20,000 serial rapists who could be identified just by analyzing the current backlog of kits.
I guess this isn't specifically transgender news, but it definitely applies to everyone in the US. I find it ridiculous that it has taken this country so long to do anything about this major problem. The $35 million budget the government is allotting to this for next year is way too small considering the numbers in the article. If the percentages they found hold up for the national total it means there are over 20,000 serial rapists who could be identified just by analyzing the current backlog of kits.
Title: Re: 100 serial rapists identified after Detroit finally processes untested rape kits
Post by: gennee on March 18, 2014, 06:22:58 PM
Post by: gennee on March 18, 2014, 06:22:58 PM
Bureaucratic ineptitude.
Title: Re: 100 serial rapists identified after Detroit finally processes untested rape kits
Post by: Xhianil on March 18, 2014, 06:44:38 PM
Post by: Xhianil on March 18, 2014, 06:44:38 PM
Ah America, why do you suck so bad?
Title: Re: 100 serial rapists identified after Detroit finally processes untested rape kits
Post by: Vicky on March 18, 2014, 07:04:58 PM
Post by: Vicky on March 18, 2014, 07:04:58 PM
Unfortunately I see both sides of this as a government retiree. The term is Taxpayer Dollar Cost Effectiveness which goes this way -->
Its not the crooks caught and who are found not guilty on a fight in the jury room over what reasonable cause is that get a District Attorney's Office its funding next year. Its the crooks that are convicted because they had did not have the possibility of any doubt in the jury's mind that get the budget funded.
If the DA cannot convict them, then why should the police arrest someone against whom the evidence is less than beyond all doubt. YES indeed, the standard for criminal evidence is "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" here in the U.S. and most British derivative law systems, but if the DA is not delivering, most of the political supporters for adequate funding for the police departments on up do other things with the T/P dollars. They want to see blood in the Arena, and the crime victims blood does not count.
I still like the idea of a justice system based on "beyond reasonable doubt" for evidence of a crime, but it took me two damn years of Law School to understand what that means. I am pretty darn sure the average politician does not understand the crap shoot behind it though.
PS Not to mention the folks that elect the politicians.
Its not the crooks caught and who are found not guilty on a fight in the jury room over what reasonable cause is that get a District Attorney's Office its funding next year. Its the crooks that are convicted because they had did not have the possibility of any doubt in the jury's mind that get the budget funded.
If the DA cannot convict them, then why should the police arrest someone against whom the evidence is less than beyond all doubt. YES indeed, the standard for criminal evidence is "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" here in the U.S. and most British derivative law systems, but if the DA is not delivering, most of the political supporters for adequate funding for the police departments on up do other things with the T/P dollars. They want to see blood in the Arena, and the crime victims blood does not count.
I still like the idea of a justice system based on "beyond reasonable doubt" for evidence of a crime, but it took me two damn years of Law School to understand what that means. I am pretty darn sure the average politician does not understand the crap shoot behind it though.
PS Not to mention the folks that elect the politicians.