A story about the understaffed Minneapolis Police Department Sex Crimes Unit:
Investigative units measure success by something they call a “clearance rate”—the percentage of reported crimes that lead to an arrest. The 10-year high for the Sex Crimes Unit was 57 percent in 2004. Last year, the rate fell to 26 percent—just 1 percent above a [...]
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Mount Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program (SAVI)
Posted in rape on Sep 20th, 2007
Ducky Doolittle has posted a call - they need advocates in Queens County:
I am writing to you on behalf of the Mount Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program (SAVI) in hope that you or someone you know might be interested in becoming a Volunteer Emergency Advocate for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. [...]
In the aftermath of the Duke lacrosse rape case, lawyers in North Carolina are learning lessons from the faulty rush to judgment against three college athletes.
From the start, when players Reade Seligmann, David Evans and Collin Finnerty were wrongfully indicted for raping a stripper in 2006, there was a stampede by the media, some members [...]
POPE AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. — A court-martial has been scheduled next month for a female airman who says she was charged because she refused to testify against three male airmen she had accused of rape.
The woman is charged with one count of committing indecent acts and one count of consuming alcohol as a minor. [...]
We’ve all heard the old saw about how some folks are so arrogant that they they jerk off while looking into a mirror. Well, what do you say to the woman that commissioned a $12,000 lookalike sex doll of herself?
Artist Amber Hawk Swanson uses her RealDoll doppelgänger, named Amber Doll, to explore “the interplay [...]
By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe StaffPublished 5/10/07
A Hampden County man who allegedly tricked his brother’s girlfriend into having sex with him by impersonating his sibling in the middle of the night cannot be convicted of rape, the state’s highest court ruled yesterday in a controversial ruling that affirms the court’s long-held view that sex obtained through [...]
John Wirenius (a former public defender), comments on the press conference held yesterday by North Carolina’s Attorney General Roy Cooper regarding of the dropping of charges in the Duke lacrosse team rape case:
…Two things stand out for me in Cooper’s press conference:
First, Cooper was willing to criticize, in genuinely scathing terms, a sitting District [...]
By DUFF WILSON
RALEIGH, N.C. April 11 — All remaining charges were dropped today against three former Duke University lacrosse players who had been accused of rape more than a year ago, North Carolina’s attorney general announced, concluding a three-month investigation of a racially charged case that polarized and outraged many in the state and nation.
An [...]
Date rape drugs underreported (via BBC)
Posted in date rape, rape, united kingdom, violence on Apr 2nd, 2007
Experts have warned that sexual assaults assisted by drugs are a more significant problem than official records suggest.
The government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs said it was concerned that two substances linked with sexual assaults were legal.
It said hospitals and police need to do more to detect the drugs.
Last year separate research by [...]












































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