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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Some rape survivors (and organizations that address sexual assault and rape) advocate and advise reporting to police and the legal system. Doing so is usually an overall bad experience but it is typically considered necessary. Even if it is often ineffective for some individuals it can be effective in bringing attention to the issue and giving a larger voice.
Examples: https://rainn.org/get-information/le...reporting-rape
There are far more accounts of why people do not report rapes to the police but it isn't the case that all rape victims would advise other rape victims to not report rape to the police. |
Yes, but that's a little different from mandatory reporting, which is how I had read things upthread. The problem is taking the choice away from the survivor; they should be able to go to the university and say they need support without the university automatically going to LE.
All that said, I overstepped, because someone who reported to the university and had a terrible experience would very likely want the university out of it and LE in. Of course, either entity can totally f*ck it up, as we've seen at UVA, and recently in the city of New Orleans.
I was trying to think about what an ideal system would look like, and I don't really know, except that it needs to be centered around the survivor and what they want.
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