Bills P Matt Arazia-rape lawsuit

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(09-06-2022, 09:19 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Based on these results there is obviously more to this story than the version you are sharing.

I don't care where you live.  No community would stand for police dismissing a rape allegation with ZERO investigation.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/05/anna-borkowski-accused-three-men-of-rape-police-stopped-her.html

Quote: During the discovery process, Anna found out that the detectives had investigated her class schedule and knew where she was doing her internship. Furthermore, it turns out the BCPD actually closed Anna’s case less than 24 hours after she made her report, according to documents received during the discovery process of her lawsuit.

The Chick-Fil-A interviews occurred 26 days after they initially closed the case when she called to ask about it. A day later it was closed again and marked exceptionally cleared. 

For those who aren't attorneys like Fred, this means they know at least one suspect, they have enough probable cause to bring about charges, and the location of the suspect is known, however they cannot arrest because the person died, is in the custody of another jurisdiction, or they're just declining to prosecute (as happened in this case).

She then went to a court commissioner to have them bring about charges. The 2nd one she spoke to agreed. 2 days later, the state's attorney sent county officers to her city residence to tell her not to drop it, saying the suspects will sue her or bring about criminal charges.

with regards to the county's track record:

Quote:Baltimore County has repeatedly come under fire for its handling of sexual assault investigations. In 2016, BuzzFeed News reported that BCPD dismissed 34 percent of all reports of rape as “unfounded,” at times with no investigation at all, at a rate far higher than the national average of 7 percent. That same year, the Baltimore Sun reported that the county had thrown out rape kits, sometimes without investigating the crimes. In 2018, ProPublica documented that BCPD reported a clearance rate of 70 percent for rape cases in 2016, nearly twice the national average. A closer look showed the department marked rapes “exceptionally cleared” half as often again as it actually arrested suspects.

It later goes on to not that an investigation in 2019 found that 78% of rape test kits were not tested.