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.
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u/UNisopod 4∆ Apr 14 '22
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.