The police have
consistiently mishandled rape cases in the US and the UK. I'm not saying the police are useless, but at the same time there's legitimate reasons why a rape victim would be reluctant to report to the authorities. None of this actually matters anyways, because- even the police are 100% professional in their handling of your case- they can't actually do anything without actionable evidence. In cases like Zoe's- where the incident took place a long time ago- there's usually very little information that can be gathered aside from the testimony of other people involved in the case, and the police can't contact literally everyone that the accused person met in his lifetime. Again, you can't find if other people have corroborating evidence without going public about allegations.
The rape kit scandal is actual poor performance by the police but still isn't an argument to not at least make an attempt to go to the police. Which is what you're arguing is the correct move. And in all likelyhood they have improved since the scandal hit. Ignoring that however, this is a Canadian case not a US one. The performance of the US cops is irrelevant to the matter at hand.
Your second link is to someone who started their little work with a defense of
someone who was caught faking a rape claim. It is telling, that the best
some feminist sites can do is go "oh but she was vulnerable and had a bad childhood she shouldn't go to jail for lying". And why did she lie you might ask? Why
to not have to take exams of course. And that was just something I found when looking up the author's name on google and
finding a page calling her out on it and then searching the name it mentioned. I'm not going to bother going through the rest of it because quite bluntly I have 0 faith in someone who starts off their journal lying outright about cases you can easily find the details about with a basic google search.
And so your solution is to start an online lynch mob where any accusation will be taken as true? Where nothing the person accused says matters and where his guilt will be assumed by nearly everyone unless the accuser manages to fuck it up by falling apart on being questioned? That's not justice. Not even remotely close. The point of these callouts is not to get corroboration. It's to ruin someone without having to bother to go to court or even make a slight attempt to prove your claim. Knowing full well that attempting to get the accuser in court to defend yourself would be almost ruinously expensive assuming you can even win the case, the current Vic Mignogna case has a gofundme that's nearly at the 250k mark and that probably still won't be enough. and very few people who are attacked like that can afford to or will be willing to muster a defense after they've been fired from their job and abandoned by nearly everyone they know. Risk free, consequence free.
Do you not give a shit about the people being accused who have no ability to even attempt to defend themselves? Do you think that it's just that someone can just accuse you of something and ruin your entire life and there's nothing you can reasonably do to defend yourself that would work? We have the courts for a reason. It's so that we have actual justice not some random lynch mob deciding things. Because otherwise? We're going to have more suicides and at some point, someone is going to really snap and put a bullet in the person who accused them. And to be honest? I wouldn't blame them for it.
I have no idea what you're talking about here. Can you provide links for those incidents?
Hands up don't shoot. Where witness who'd lied before court and helped cause a US wide outrage suddenly realized they couldn't keep at it in a court of law without any consequences and rapidly changed their tune. The best part is that lie still gets brought up to this very day.
The Vic case's one is more difficult by virtue of the nature of the case. The name of the individual is Sam Swicegood who also went under the username ponytoast on twitter.
First let's start with his twitter claims as per the archives taken of them by kiwifarms. Started off really strong didn't he? It didn't really last unfortunately for him. As
per Nick's coverage of it (
1:04:12 to
1:13:21) the police report didn't exist and he retracted everything.
