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In reply to the discussion: 40 years of college football's sexual assault problem [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)132. It should be standard procedure in situations like this for the FBI to take jurisdiction
I don't know all the ins and outs of it but the FBI has the right to assert jurisdiction on hate crimes and on color of law abuses. Those categories should be extended to cover sexual assaults where the local jurisdiction may seem to have a conflict of interest.
Edited to add... ...conflict of interest or otherwise less than normal prosecutorial zeal to prosecute what seem to be prosecutable sexual offenses.
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the state attorney did not think the case was winnable. slight difference. but keep trying.
niyad
Dec 2013
#5
If that is true, a) it's inexcusable and b) should justify rolling heads at the PD.
lumberjack_jeff
Dec 2013
#19
since, by your own admission, you know nothing about the case, perhaps you could educate
niyad
Dec 2013
#72
wow--that is one of the funnier statements I have seen today. thanks, I needed the laughs.
niyad
Dec 2013
#75
If you review the facts as we know them in this case, its clear it was a false accusation. nt
aaaaaa5a
Dec 2013
#127
Why do you think a woman who had sex with her boyfriend willingly can't be raped by someone else?
EOTE
Dec 2013
#178
you are familiar with the fbi statistics on false rape accusations, yes. but this is what you post?
niyad
Dec 2013
#3
When it comes to rape, some people like to pretend false allegations are common
BainsBane
Dec 2013
#55
Do you think women should be intimidated into not pressing charges? That the minority of rape
BainsBane
Dec 2013
#60
i know man. that lack of evidence. like videos put up on the net. or admitted to raping a child
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#82
there is all kinds of NORM where women and girls being raped is dismissed by people, cops,
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#93
Guilt and innocence is handed down by courts only. We merely have opinions.
LanternWaste
Dec 2013
#133
That FBI study is hotly disputed. This is why such numbers are not allowed to
aaaaaa5a
Dec 2013
#128
hotly disputed by whom? those who don't want to look at facts, who want us to think that all
niyad
Dec 2013
#131
she lied because she knew she was going to get 1.5 mil? how many other women have sued
niyad
Dec 2013
#78
The ideal is to convict, sentence and punish every guilty person and zero innocents.
lumberjack_jeff
Dec 2013
#49
"It is more important that the innocent be protected, than the guilty be punished"
davidn3600
Dec 2013
#59
really? cause i was the first to suggest 10 INNOCENT girls should not be protected for 1
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#66
You sound like you're okay with innocent men being imprisoned if it prevents rape.
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#68
wow, did you even bother to read that list? you keep bringing up this banks person, without
niyad
Dec 2013
#70
I wonder whether the girls in the top pic would have the signs out if Jameis Winston....
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Dec 2013
#23
evidently you and a couple of others here see this as all about the football fans
BainsBane
Dec 2013
#38
What's amazing is that you can't use an iota of reading comprehension....
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Dec 2013
#85
What do you think? The article talks about 40 years of sexual assault going unpunished
BainsBane
Dec 2013
#142
I would guess that since these females are attending college, they are adults, women, not "girls"
niyad
Dec 2013
#117
The banner they are holding says "No means No" once. It says "Go Gators!" twice.
lumberjack_jeff
Dec 2013
#33
Oh, I'm sure they're very upset a Florida State player might be getting away with something.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Dec 2013
#41
I would agree with you if they didn't have a "Go Gators" on that sign...
ScreamingMeemie
Dec 2013
#130
While you willfully ignore the hundreds of unprosecuted rapes discussed in the article
BainsBane
Dec 2013
#144
goddess forfend that we should discuss issues of importance to women,issues like rape culture,
niyad
Dec 2013
#94
Once the falsely convicted has been exonerated, the legitimacy of justice is already damaged.
lumberjack_jeff
Dec 2013
#97
NOTHING would have happened in that stuebenville case if people didnt yell from
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#98
Yeah, and justice isn't "damaged" when communities sweep rape under the rug
NuclearDem
Dec 2013
#100
hyperbole much? mob justice? because this one person to whom you keep referring, completely
niyad
Dec 2013
#116
you might read this thread if you still wonder why we need to speak up, even when told nuthin' to se
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#197
but surely Ben Roethlisberger has dropped out of the "beloved" position... surely.
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#106
I bet you do. Have you ever considered the possibility that the sports media might be biased?
radicalliberal
Dec 2013
#201
i didnt know one "vindicated" themselves of raping another human being, simply by marrying. wow. k
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#193
It should be standard procedure in situations like this for the FBI to take jurisdiction
stevenleser
Dec 2013
#132
not sure what it would take, and not sure of the fbi's track record. but, as you said, somebody
niyad
Dec 2013
#136
I understand the suggestion, but am not a big fan of ever-expanding federal law enforcement.
Comrade Grumpy
Dec 2013
#154
It wouldn't happen much after the first few. Police departments hate the Feds doing this...
stevenleser
Dec 2013
#155
What about the 40 years of rapes in which victims were pressured, shamed, and intimidated
BainsBane
Dec 2013
#182
"It's about a half century of rapes going unpunished. That is being widely ignored. Why?"
redqueen
Dec 2013
#165
yes, we do know exactly why, and the fact that we do know, and are not silent about it, is
niyad
Dec 2013
#181
Well, fortunately, more and more women are no longer willing to silently accept it.
redqueen
Dec 2013
#186
but we are not supposed to notice, or point it out for fear of hurting their feelings. how dare
niyad
Dec 2013
#180
Notice the pathetic attitude on the part of so many football fans toward the OP.
radicalliberal
Dec 2013
#202