State Office Assails 'Start by Believing' Advocacy Program for Rape Victims

Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2016-12-18 17:40

Article here. Excerpt:

'A popular, nationwide program that encourages police and others to treat rape victims with more sensitivity is under fire from the Arizona Governor's Office of Youth, Faith and Family.

In a recent letter to elected prosecutors around the state, Youth, Faith and Family director Debbie Moak admonishes Arizona law-enforcement authorities to rethink their support of Start by Believing, a nonprofit initiative aimed at removing obstacles to the reporting of sexual violence. Statistics show that many women decline to report sexual attacks, sometimes out of fear that investigators won't believe them.

Launched in 2011, Start by Believing is an offshoot of the Washington-based nonprofit End Violence Against Women International.

When the Arizona Legislature adopted a resolution in 2014 supporting Start by Believing, it became the first lawmaking body in the nation to do so. Three other states have since followed — as have Arizona communities including Fountain Hills, Surprise, Apache Junction, and the Prescott Police Department. Several colleges around the state have signed up. In March, the Arizona State University Police Department renewed its support for the initiative; the year before, it became the first campus police force in the state to support it. According to the Start by Believing website, more than 130 communities in the United States and internationally have adopted the program.'

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Claims of rape, claims of murder in self-defense, etc., all need to be examined and questioned, not merely believed simply b/c of the nature of the alleged offense. Presumed innocence is a right, not a convenience to be taken away arbitrarily.

There are ways to treat an alleged victim with compassion and still work to validate their claim. That is what police are for, not merely tools to be used to arrest anyone with a claim made against them for that reason alone. Feminists, not content to presume men guilty in their own minds for all the world's evils, now seek to have men presumed guilty by law enforcers and courts first when accused of sex crimes, then in all other cases. Vile.

Napoleon's justice code started with guilt presumed. Consequently, tens of thousands of mostly men were imprisoned and/or executed by him. A presumption of guilt started during the Salem Witch Trials, leading to hundreds of men being hung and many women also being hung or imprisoned.

Dear feminists: Do you really want us to return to those days?

Apparently, they do, provided the presumed-guilty are always men.

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2016-12-18 17:51

I began reading this with the hope that some would see that such programs are bad because they are unfair to men.

However, I soon came to read that many feel such programs are bad because they are unfair... drumroll... to women.

Rather than take the angle that this program leads to false prosecution, the author takes the angles that this program will result in fewer prosecutions because it corrupts the investigatory process.

Once again, this is a case of "false rape accusations are bad, not because they jail innoocent men, but because they make people doubt victims."

Oh well.

I suppose that is the best we can hope for these days.

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Submitted by ThomasI on Mon, 2016-12-19 05:06