[Spam] RE: [Vision2020] LMT Article on Rape --

[lfalen]

The follow up report by the Lewiston Chief of Police would confirm a good deal of what you have said.

Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Donovan Arnold donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:32:21 -0700
To: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
Subject: Re: [Spam] RE: [Vision2020] LMT Article on Rape --

> Many of you seem to be jumping to conclusions here.
> How do we know for fact that any police office said
> that 70% of rapes reported are false? Because you read
> it in the paper? Give me a break!
> 
> The Police were probably misquoted, or the words did
> not come out correctly, or the reporter misquoted or
> paraphrased incorrectly.
> 
> 95% of the time that I read something outrageous from
> a local authority quoted in the paper, it usually
> turns out that the people did not say what they paper
> said they said, or were taken completely out of
> context.
> 
> Perhaps the police officer said, 70% of rapes do not
> lead in a conviction, so that meant "false", either to
> the officer, or the reporter.
> 
> I hardly doubt that any trained, experienced police
> officer, that is required to attend a sexual
> harassment and abuse conference or class every year
> would say, or intend to imply that 7 out of 10 women
> that report rape are liars, even if they believed that
> to be the case.
> 
> Just because something is reported in the media, or
> printed in black and white, does not make it true,
> look at FOX news. Did any of you call and confirm this
> information as being accurate? 
> 
> Donovan J Arnold
> 
> 
> 
> --- lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
> 
> > While the 8% national average for false reports
> > maybe low, 70% is obviously a way too high. The
> > tragedy of articles like this is that there will be
> > more rapes going unreported.
> > -----Original message-----
> > From: debismith at moscow.com
> > Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:40:36 -0700
> > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Subject: [Spam] RE: [Vision2020] LMT Article on Rape
> > --
> > 
> > > Having just completed the YWCA Week Without
> > Violence and the Clothesline Project at 
> > > WSU, I read the article and cried. The Clothesline
> > Project consists of over 600 t-shirts painted 
> > > over 14 years. Each shirt is painted by a survivor
> > or supporter of someone who was assaulted, 
> > > most speaking of sexual assault. We know many of
> > these women, we know they didn't report 
> > > the assault, and we know why they choose to not be
> > re-victimized by the type of troglodites 
> > > exhibited by that newspaper story.
> > > 
> > > To suggest that 70% of reported rapes are false is
> > completely insane. Why would anyone 
> > > report a sexual assault if the police already plan
> > to discount it? It must be true that going to 
> > > Lewiston means you move 30 miles down the hill and
> > 30 years into the past...
> > > 
> > > These officers desperately need remedial training.
> > I would suggest they be required to come 
> > > hang the Clothesline Project, and read the stories
> > of the people they call liars. And they should 
> > > be put on non-paid leave until they do.....next
> > year, third week in October.
> > > 
> > > Debi Robinson-Smith, YWCA of WSU
> > > 
> > >
> >
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