04-29-2022, 08:56 PM
(04-29-2022, 08:40 PM)Roland Wrote: Bull. Today, men are routinely expelled from college and have their lives ruined with almost no real evidence in Title IX proceedings that don't meet any reasonable standards of justice.
What you call "jumping through hoops" is what is actually called providing proof that a crime occurred. So terrible to have such high expectations for putting someone in jail for years.
The terrible thing about this notion that the normal standards of justice shouldn't apply to rape because it's hard to prove is that it would be black men who would suffer the most from it.
Actually Jagged has a point. He is using somewhat skewed stats, but in general conviction rate on rapes reported to police are about a third of other crimes.
The reason is clear. When everyone agrees that all the physical evidence shows the couple had sex it can be very difficult to show that there was lack of consent on one side.
But the flip side is that the same facts that make it hard to prove for a conviction also makes it easier to make false claims. Many men who were not convicted of rape suffered terribly just due to the allegations. Some of them were guilty and some of them were innocent. Our criminal justice system is designed to make it difficult to convict an innocent defendant. But it also makes it harder to convict someone who is guilty. I think that is the way it has to be.
