aens_wife wrote:I'm gonna go back and edit my post bc I meant to say that I don't expect all women to press charges. Not that no one should press charges
Mostly I think that it depends on what happened, who it happened to, what kind of resources they have (financial, emotional, family), etc. I'd like to think that I'd have the strength to file charges if something happened to me, but I've heard enough stories about the cops in my town that I'm just not sure. It isn't easy and it isn't black and white
Also, I still don't think that we can solve this issue with violence. It requires a deep cultural change, not castration.
I think it would be helpful if more women pressed charges though. No one I know did and I know that those bastards just got away with it and most likely went on to do it to someone else. If someone would have pressed charged, at very least the pieces of shit would be on the sex offender registry for the rest of their lives. There's not true justice in these situations but that's something I guess.
I actually disagree with not using violence. I know it won't solve the problem, but at the same time, I still believe in capital punishment and in my opinion this is the best way to do it. I want these people to suffer horrifically.
I'm sorry your city has shit bag police. It's sad to hear that the people who are supposed to protect and serve are monsters themselves.
That reminds me of a woman my sister fought to have terminated in a smaller town in Kansas.
This woman was a police officer who strip search a women in a parking lot, in front of her 4 or 5 year old child and did an anal cavity search. The woman bascially sodomized her. She has zero basis for any search or even to talk to her. She was ticketed for some stupid reason and left traumatized. My sister (Denise), who was a rape victim herself, found out about this and contacted the woman who this happened to. She started investigating and found out that the police officer who did this to this poor woman was let go from one of the neighboring cities for something similar and actually had a reputation for doing anal cavity searches on women in the field.
My sister made it her mission in life to get rid of this piece of filth and she also convinced the victim to sue the city. For the next several months she wrote every single member in city hall, including the major. She wrote the chief of police, the media...everyone. They showed up to my sisters house and tried to intimidate her into silence (the chief of police did this). She told him to go fuck himself (she is an extremely hostile person when need is there and is a black belt and not afraid of shit). They harassed her and her husband for six months, but she persisted in writing and writing and contacted media outlets.
What ended up happening was not only did that officer lose her job, but the chief of police was let go and the fucking major resigned! My sister pushed those fucking pieces of shit so goddamn hard and put so much media attention on them, they had no choice! Her life became hell in the city after that, so she move like 40 minutes away.
My point in sharing this is that she actually accomplished what a lot of people never would. She helped get some type of justice for that victim. It doesn't make up for it, but it sure made people feel just a little bit safer.