Pray tell, what's a "rape kit"? I assume it's not a kit that makes raping someone easier...
You can do better than that. Please don't post like this to HN.
Abandoned rape kits identify over 800 serial rapists in one Michigan county
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've noticed the same area with the vast majority of murders is also the same area as the vast majority of rapes, you are correct that it is a particular culture problem
That's some nice bigotry you are trying to stir up there, buddy. Go back under the alt-right bridge you live in.
We've banned that other account (and several related accounts) for trolling. But your comment badly breaks the site guidelines too. Please read them and you'll see that they ask you not to feed trolls, but instead to flag egregious comments.
Also, would you please stop using HN for ideological battle? You've done this many times and it's against both the guidelines and the spirit of this site. And we've had to ask you this more than once already.
Re: Abandoned rape kits identify over 800 serial rapists in one Michigan county
#193> Ten thousand rape kits tested. One hundred twenty-seven convictions won, 1,947 cases investigated, 817 serial rapists identified. This is crazy. I wonder how much it costs to test a kit; this could be a very high-utility charitable donation. Looks like there is a charity that is pushing this issue (linked from the OP): http://endthebacklog.org [edited to add, looks like $8,893 per kit, from http://endthebacklog.org…
Something to keep in mind here: Testing these kids is orders of magnitude cheaper now than it was when they started piling up back in 1984.
This isn't to say that they shouldn't be tested now -- they absolutely should -- but it's less clear that they were wrong to throw the kits into storage at the time. (Especially if they thought for some reason that the case had been resolved without needing to run DNA tests.)
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Justice doesn't just come in form of public defenders. I lived in Chicago and had my car improperly towed to the yards. Being a rich computer dork, I could take the time off when the yards were open to go retrieve it. It was only PoC for the entire 3 hours it took me to pay the fine and get my vehicle back, during the day, when anyone with a job would be required to pick up their vehicle. My job says OK when I tell t…
It probably isn't true that most people would be fired for having to take a half day off to retrieve an impounded car.
Maybe not most but there certainly is an underclass that would. Even if the number is 5%-10%, it's too high.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I understand the sentiment is a common one, I disagree with the premise that these things are due to race. This is due to economic inequality, with race being used by the wealthy as a tool to pit the majority against each other, no different from how religion was used to label the pious and heathens. It's binary nonsense. There are parts of the country where you WILL find poor white people being treated the sam…
And yet, somehow, black people get killed by police a lot more than poor white people.
Are you sure? This study shows that whites are actually killed at a higher rate: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/13/why-a...
Re: Abandoned rape kits identify over 800 serial rapists in one Michigan county
#196> Since most jurisdictions do not have systems for counting or tracking rape kits, we cannot be sure of the total number of untested rape kits nationwide. Additionally, there is no federal law mandating a tracking and testing rape kits. It is estimated, however, that there are hundreds of thousands of untested kits in police and crime lab storage facilities throughout the country.
http://www.endthebacklog.org/backlog-what-it/defining-rape-k...
I don't want to sound anti American but to an European, this is just mind blowing. Is there any other developed nation that systematically ignores prosecution of rapes?
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hear most perpetrators of sexual assault are men, shouldn’t your advice be more effective at prevention/avoidance if directed at sons instead?
I would like to see all children get the message. I certainly raised my two adult sons exactly like that. The problem with your theory is that it is incredibly disempowering for women. I see this over and over and over. Everyone wants to cure "rape culture" for just one half of the equation. I don't think that works.
I think we should try it? Teaching daughters to be responsible for not getting sexually assaulyed implicitly communicates that men are not responsible. It can easily be interpreted as victim-blaming.
Can you elaborate about how teaching sons not to sexually assault people is disempowering to women? I need help understanding female empowerment.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hear most perpetrators of sexual assault are men, shouldn’t your advice be more effective at prevention/avoidance if directed at sons instead?
Perpetrators of all crimes are mostly men. Sexual assault perpetrated by men isn't out of proportion with theft or murder perpetrated by men.
I feel like your comment was trying to make a point and ended up stating some trivial facts. Could you elaborate on what your point is?
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
Austin has plenty of poor people, and the white population is somewhat under 50 percent - 47 according to recent estimates. Hispanic population is about 36%. Keep in mind Austin is the core downtown city, and if you’re thinking of affluence and whiteness, you might be thinking of the suburbs. It’s possible that economically disadvantaged nonwhite people maybe disproportionately represented among rape victims, also th…
The wealthiest part of Austin, Westlake, barely 5 minutes from downtown, isn't even officially part of Austin.
Thanks, your comment illustrates my intent. I erred in saying downtown. What i meant to say is that Austin the city isn’t necessarily what people think of as ‘Austin’. When I think of South Austin and the area east of I35, especially as it was 8-10 years ago, I picture a working class area with low income hispanic people and my young college friends, not anyone affluent.
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#200Pray tell, what's a "rape kit"? I assume it's not a kit that makes raping someone easier...
Sensitive much? When a commercial service that's not widely known is mentioned without an explanation of what it is everyone complains. I still don't see why I'm supposed to know what that thing is, since I'm neither police nor a rapist.