Rape Victim Advocates Get a Role Alongside the Police [nytimes.com]

Alicia Doktor 6/28/184:00 AM

This is the third in a series on reducing sexual assault.

Last month in New York City, five leaders of organizations that seek to combat sexual assault gathered in a conference room in the headquarters of the New York Police Department. For three days, they read through rape case files from the Special Victims Division. Then they discussed what they saw with the division’s top officials.

It is unusual, to say the least, for police investigators to let advocacy groups that often criticize them go through their confidential files. But the department has now held three such twice-yearly audits, with advocates and the police agreeing that they can help the department catch more rapists and treat survivors of rape with more respect.

Here’s how it happened, a story that starts in Philadelphia:

[For more on this story by Tina Rosenberg, go to https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...ictim-advocates.html]

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Robert OlcottMember

During my [1980] undergraduate '14th Amendment and Legal Advocacy' class, we had to read the ruling in a class action lawsuit, brought by domestic violence survivors in N.Y.C. against both the NYPD, Family Court Clerk, and one Family Court Judge. Hopefully, it availed the Women's Law Center adequate precedent in this matter.

For 'Trauma-Informed' Police Departments, and legal advocates like the Women's Law Center, I thought Louise Godbout's article on Coercion, in this Aces Connect-ion.com Blog, was a 'comprehensive introduction' to the multiple factors at play in cases like the above NYTimes article addresses.

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