One of Britain's most senior police officers today calls for specialist rape squads in every force after admitting conviction rates and reporting levels were "not good enough".
John Yates, who speaks on the issue for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), will tell a police conference that such squads would ensure experts are put in charge from the start of a case to the finish, allowing each force to ensure more cases reach trial.
Only 15 per cent of rape victims report the crime and more than two thirds of those complaints do not make it to court, even though five per cent of women say they have experienced rape, according to the British Crime Survey. The overall conviction rate for rape is just six per cent.
Here we go again! *Sigh*
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At this rate it will soon become law for a woman to claim that she'd been raped.
They practically all do, don't they? Every woman seems to have her sob story. It's mostly bullshit to garner sympathy.
I've left two comments on this article and neither has been published.
Mine has gone for cyber-walk as well. But the (currently) three postings up there are very good.
Those posts have been there all day. I bet there have been loads of submissions since.
"...we believe, in ACPO, that specialist, experienced people, credible investigators who know these cases, know the pitfalls, should be dealing with them."
If he is as true as his words, I would actually support the idea. With one overwhelmingly vital proviso. That these squads of specialist, experienced, credible people (which immediately rules out feminists and their lackey-boys) keep meticulous records of how many rape claims they receive, how many they investigate, how many are proven false, how many women retract their claims, what excuses they give for having lied, how many are dropped for lack of evidence, how many are prosecuted, how many result in a conviction, what sentences they receive, how many women are prosecuted for false accusations, how many are convicted, what sentences they recieve, and how many men are convicted only to be proven innocent later through DNA evidence. Also how many times the same women make false accusations. Then they must publish these statistics regularly, also giving us the full names and pictures of those found guilty of either crime. That way, we can put an end to the arguments about the prevalence of rape and the level of false accusations, and see which of these two crimes is treated fairly and which isn't. And we can also see whether organisations like the Fawcett Society are telling us how it really is, or making up porkies to suit their own agenda.
OK, OK, it'll never happen...
Paul Parmenter
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