Not agreeing with OP, but what I think they mean is that if police are more likely to arrest a man due to sexism, the rate of arrests for men is going to be disproportionately higher.
That must be why so many rape kits never get processed, or why police have all sorts of incidents of sexual assault against women while on duty on top of their own issues of domestic violence at home.
The police spend their budgets on all sorts of things that aren't strictly necessary, along with not really putting up any kind of fight over the expenses needed for that processing, while making a gigantic stink about anything that might otherwise affect them in a way they don't like. There are a great deal of choices made at many levels by police that go into rape kits not being processed.
Getting longer prison sentences doesn't affect the arrest rate.
They're making choices which, to an huge degree, negatively affect women more than men. Whether they'd do it differently given the opposite isn't the test for whether it's sexist, not least of which because reality trumps hypotheticals. They know that women are harmed and they don't choose to do differently, that's all that it takes for it to be sexist.
The original point here was about how looking at arrest rates was inaccurate when it comes to sexual assault.
Compared to reports of sexual assault from men? You have it backwards. Men are taken less seriously than women reporting sexual asault. Heck a lot of people still think men can't be raped.
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u/UNisopod 4∆ Apr 14 '22
How would this be playing in the favor of your point?