[Vision2020] LMT Article on Rape --

[lfalen]

Read it in the DN. Just supposition on my part, but 70% sounds high, 8% is probably low.

Roger
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From: Andreas Schou ophite at gmail.com
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:45:39 -0700
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] LMT Article on Rape --

> Having just finished reading Sunday's Lewiston Morning Tribune article on
> prosecutions of rape, I ... can't believe what I'm reading. The Lewiston
> chief of police, who has no training whatsoever in sexual assault, is
> claiming that 70% of reported rapes in Nez Perse County are false reports.
> For this to be true, it would have to be nine times the generally-accepted
> national average of 8%, or three times the 24% average that many
> conservatives use. Did anyone read this? Did anyone have the same reaction
> that I did? Does anyone else think that he should pretty much immediately
> lose his job?
>  -- ACS
>  P.S. Sunil, do you have any special perspective on this that you're not
> prohibited from sharing with us?
>