[Vision2020] LMT Article on Rape --

[Art Deco]

Andreas,

I read the article and was disgusted.  However, I think the attitude of the LPD is similar on other subjects such as child and spousal abuse.

The follow-up article in today's LMT doesn't improve the picture at all.

Having fair, effective law enforcement is a very important part of the quality of life.  

On a much less important issue, I have just avoided a huge traffic jam along Washington between 6th and 3rd caused by those turning left onto third continuing to come after the red light, getting caught in the intersection, and thus preventing traffic on 3rd in both directions from moving.

Since this mess occurs almost daily during high traffic volumes and the MPD station is only a block away, one wonders...

Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
deco at moscow.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andreas Schou 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:43 PM
  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?


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