Abandoned rape kits identify over 800 serial rapists in one Michigan county
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#2>Over 800 serial rapists, criminals who have struck 10-15 times without being stopped, were identified. 127 convictions have been made this far.
The definition of serial rapist is 10+ victims. That's a lot of them in one county. o_O
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#3My god, how do you leave over 11k crimes just sitting in a store room... in one county. I'm glad they're addressing this gross miscarriage of justice. Hope it's an isolated thing (but not actually expecting it to be so)
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#4Get this rape shit off HN, are we suffering a feminazi invasion or something?
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#5My god, how do you leave over 11k crimes just sitting in a store room... in one county. I'm glad they're addressing this gross miscarriage of justice. Hope it's an isolated thing (but not actually expecting it to be so)
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#6> but because it's sexual assault, for whatever reason, it's very easy for some folks to sweep this under the rug
Wow. Just wow.
I get that resources are limited and they must prioritize. But to view sexual assault as a low-priority item is just sick.
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#7Were the ones they've identified repeat offenders or something? I was under the impression that a relatively small % of the population had their DNA in a database.
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#8>Over 800 serial rapists, criminals who have struck 10-15 times without being stopped, were identified. 127 convictions have been made this far. The definition of serial rapist is 10+ victims. That's a lot of them in one county. o_O
Population: 1,749,366. Kits: 11,341. Judging by how many women I know who have been willing to say they have been raped — and no, I don’t mean just pressured into something they regretted — this is probably less than one tenth of the victims.
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#9> but because it's sexual assault, for whatever reason, it's very easy for some folks to sweep this under the rug Wow. Just wow. I get that resources are limited and they must prioritize. But to view sexual assault as a low-priority item is just sick.
Definitely. I can see not prioritizing it over anything that could immediately kill someone, but it (and any other criminal evidence) ought to be the very next thing on the list. And they've got the resources to handle those things. Perhaps part of the problem is how they're compensated based on how many beds they have and how many procedures they're performing etc
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#10It says they were found in 2009. I wonder what period they were from then?