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Can Online Reporting System Help Prevent Sexual Assaults On Campus?
jyosim writes Studies have shown that as many as 90 percent of campus rapes are committed by repeat offenders. A new system is designed to help identify serial assaulters, by letting students anonymously report incidents in order to look for patterns. But some argue that having the ability to report someone with just the click of a button may not be a good thing. Andrew T. Miltenberg, a New York lawyer who represents young men accused of sexual misconduct, says though the system seems well intended, he is concerned about dangers it may pose to students who are accused. 'We're all guilty of pressing send on an angry text or email that, had we had to put it into an actual letter and proofread, we probably wouldn't have sent,' he says.
This will end very badly. Some students will use this as an attack and/or revenge tool against people they don't like. Anonymity plus rape accusations will equal lawsuits and destroyed lives.
Some things need to be said...
If you thought swatting was bad, just wait until this one gets going.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
some argue that having the ability to report someone with just the click of a button may not be a good thing.
No, you dont understand. This is the internet, but more importantly, its 4chan. I want you to envision a storm of millions of reports, hundreds of millions even, of the same perpetrator, Mooty McMootykins. He stands 21 inches tall and shoots cookies from his arse. The student attends $university and is majoring in hitler-did-nothing-wrong. Students should beware of a man dressed as a watermelon who propositions victims with "Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?" Students have reported that mcmootykins cannot be stopped because you cannot flim flam the zim zam. he also evades approach because you cant corner the dorner. each report ends confirming the students suspicion that the perpetrator suffers from gender ptsd caused by his planetkin alignment and inability to remove kebab.
Good people go to bed earlier.
The way the whole campus rape thing is handled seems idiotic to me. Why is sexual assault an issue for colleges or universities to handle? IMHO, it should be a police matter. If a student reports that they were sexually assaulted to a college or university, the college or university should have to report it to the local authorities, instead of being handled internally.
The most common reason I hear for not doing this is that the victim doesn't want their assailant to go to prison. Why? So they can continue raping other people? Chances are the victim isn't the rapists first victim, or if they were, they won't be the last. Suspending a rapist from school or making them transfer does not protect other people.
The other problem I have with having colleges or universities handle this problem is that I've heard of several instances where there wasn't due diligence in fact finding, and there was a presumption of guilt against the alleged assailant. Let the justice system handle what the justice system was created for. Colleges & universities should stick to educating people and doing research, not adjudicating serious crimes.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Girls don't hang out with drunk men. Men don't hang out with drunk women. The standard behavior on a university campus invites sexual misbehavior. Mod me into oblivion.
"Rape culture" isn't really about solving any problems. It's about generating fear to generate money and votes.
Rape rates have been falling drastically since the 70's.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZlRN...
Rape rates on colleges are LOWER than outside of college:
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And rape rates in some other 1st-world countries are HUGELY higher--but nobody here cares apparently:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...
But none of these facts comply with the myth of the "oppressive white male" who thinks he can rape and take whatever he wants.
Nobody disagrees with the idea that rape is a bad thing. But people are willing to hijack that axiom to create hysteria and generate political power.
There needs to absolutely be a mechanism in place for a woman to:
- safely be transported to a hospital in a fashion which maintains chain of evidence
- be examined by a sympathetic, but impartial medical professional using a rape kit to collect evidence
- make a formal statement, and if it includes an accusation, that to be duly sworn out in a reasonable fashion
There needs to be in place mechanisms for the hospital, police and other social structures to take the above seriously. If there aren't, that needs to change.
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
Get raped, and generally one will be treated like they deserved it, or are making it up, or are just having regrets, or are simply trying to 'take advantage' of some innocent man.
You know, I keep HEARING that claim. But I don't think I've ever once seen any actual evidence of it (not in recent decades, anyway). When a rape victim walks into a police station today saying "I've been raped," I'm pretty damned sure they don't immediately take her to an interrogation room and start accusing her of making it up. AFAIK the SOP in just about any police station is to quickly get her story, get to her a hospital for a rape kit, and then arrest the accused if there is sufficient evidence of the crime. Many police stations and hospitals even have rape counselors who show up now and assist the victim. The standard presumption initially is to believe the accuser, particularly if there is physical evidence to back up the crime.
It's only later in the process that good police officers (ones not being spurred on by grandstanding prosecutors) will follow up with a more thorough examination of the evidence. And then, yes, they will ask more detailed questions of both the accuser and accused--and possibly even question their stories. Because that's THEIR JOB, to not take accusations or denials at face value and to look at the evidence, question witnesses, etc.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Ladies always taking a couple friends along when venturing out will solve this. Their names are Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson.
It has been proven over and over that citizens carrying the means of self defense greatly deters violent attack against them. The fatal flaw in this is the "defenseless victim" being present. Eliminate the defenseless victim by allowing her some effective defense. Only firearms are effective in all situations. Some a-hole hopped up on PCP won't even notice pepper spray. Tasers fail if the perpetrator is wearing heavy clothing like a parka. Only a firearm is capable of 100% effective defense.
If someone loses their employment becasue this app is misused to punish someone, is the author liable? Common carriers are generally immune to the content passed through them. ISPs are partially immune. But DRM, drug trades, underage porn without due dilligence can get them in trouble. But what about software authors?
If "Jackie" had gone to the cops, which is what they're there for, there wouldn't have been a problem. She wanted a media shit show, and she got it.