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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/sandy-garossino/jian-ghomeshi-women-report-sex-assault_b_6059124.html
Beringia
(4,316 posts)that police don't even move forward when people claim rape. They sit in drawers gathering dust.
A sea and an ocean away, there was the even more appalling finding that New Orleans police didn't even bother to investigate hundreds of rape cases, or simply classified the reported sexual assaults as "noncriminal" and did no investigation. New Orleans or Britain was no anomaly. Months before the Cosby rape allegations surfaced, the Iowa Law Review, in March, found that rape is routinely underreported in dozens of cities. The rape claims were dismissed out of hand with little or no investigation. The result was there were no report, no statistical count, and no record of an attack.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/we-love-you-bill-cosby_b_6204616.html
shenmue
(38,506 posts)niyad
(113,336 posts)than a decade.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Because the victim "acted like a typical victim".
And the DA had the victim and the perp ON TAPE calling from the sheriff's office with the number disguised, getting him to talk about helping women get off with vibrators, etc. in disgusting detail. And they still refused to take it to a grand jury.
This was a female elected District Attorney, by the way, that said the victim "acted like a typical victim".