“I am betting nine out of 10 times, when a woman asks for a female detective the story is going to be untrue.”
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Lt. Adam Lamboy, commander of the Manhattan Special Victims Squad, in a story about how the NYPD Special Victims Division does its job, explaining that if a woman who reports being raped requests a female detective, the request is “taken as a sign of possible deception” because the “operative theory is that women who are lying think female cops will be more receptive to their stories.”
(via jccarter1)
Et tu, Special Victims Squad?
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because it couldn’t possibly be that they’ve more than likely just been violently assaulted by a man and are feeling very vulnerable and unsafe around other men at that moment? Especially overbearing, armed, misogynistic assholes?
(via thelefthandedwife)