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Originally Posted by 33girl
Part of the problem is that law enforcement in some college towns ranges from sketchy to nonexistent to Barney Fife. If the town/gown relationship is bad, the police aren't going to care about (in their eyes) some overprivileged sorority girl saying she was assaulted.
The intent of the SCA is good and necessary, the execution is just crummy.
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The same could be said for university administrators. In fact, one thing I can say about every administrator I've ever met--not a single one is well suited to play judge, jury and executioner in a law-enforcement role. No six-hour seminar or weekend seminar or whatever is going to prepare them to be law enforcement, which is what is needed in these situations.
I agree, many cities police departments are ill-equipped to handle these cases, but when you start to branch out to county/parrish/whatever law enforcement, the options get better.
Even in Oklahoma, I can't think of a single county sheriff, outside of maybe one county (which doesn't have a university in its jurisdiction) who I would trust less to handle a rape investigation than a university administrator, much less, have the same range of punishment available.
Rapists don't need to be expelled, they need to be sent to prison.
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