Human Rights Watch to publish report that shows some victims experience fresh trauma from police neglect in rape cases
Police in Washington DC frequently fail to investigate reports of rape, and treat victims so dismissively at times, that they experience fresh trauma while the chances of the perpetrator being caught are undermined, according to a comprehensive report due out next week.
Campaign group Human Rights Watch is expected to uncover “disturbing evidence of police failure” in a 200-plus page report after a two-year investigation into law enforcement practices in the US capital.
But although shocking, the situation in Washington is far from isolated. There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
“This is a national crisis requiring federal action. We need a paradigm shift in police culture, because rapes and sexual assaults are being swept under the rug, and too many victims are being bullied,” said Carol Tracy of the Women’s Law Project, a legal advocacy group that specialises in sexual violence cases.
Human Rights Watch began looking into the situation in Washington after discovering evidence that the city’s Metropolitan police department (MPD) were refusing even to document a significant number of reports of sexual assaults coming in from the central hospital where victims are treated.
Full details and statistics will be disclosed by HRW in its final report, due to be published on 24 January.
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Human Rights Group should also be investigating Northern CA
Police failure or indifference to victims esp. Native Americans where rampant pedophilia in small towns are rarely even investigated and depending on your social class pretty much nails the coffin shut. There’s no use even reporting the crime in the county it occurred. It has to be reported outside the county is how bad it is. I know damn well Sacramento CA has gotten more complaints on this county than any others.
Its where I grew up but cannot bring myself to ever move back.
The racism of cops has devistated the black community and destroyed it for years. When will these women stop leaning towards fag women like rosey nodonnel and the other misguided freaks for assistance. In the civil rights 60′s and 70′s these chicken head rape victims dependednon white men to save them and look where it has gotten them. They alighn themselves with the very corrupt individuals who hate their guts. Possibly more rape is the answer for the dumb, ignorant, and insane idiots. Go into a hotel with Mike Tyson and expect what exactly in your tight fitting dress you wore to entice him. Kobie Bryant rapes some whore. This society can not see past their nose very far. The womans movement is so stupid and what have they ever moved on. The black civil rights activist made all the progress the womans movement has ever achieved. Cops hate women who require love and attention. Submit and keep your nose wet and cold bitches and the cops will love you as much as they do their dog. Clinical definition of insanity is again? Did anyone forget that fast.
Now the Myan shit is over what will these maggots be afraid of next.