Hey how come we hold into either A the deterrence model of policing or B the law when it’s long-known that only
- Approximately 8% to 15% of all sexual assault or rape incidents in Australia are reported to the police. https://www.aihw.gov.au/family-domestic-and-sexual-violence/responses-and-outcomes/police/sexual-assault-reported-to-police
How is this tolerable? Is it because the law protects property? Because we need to defend ‘the minority of the opulent from the majority’ per James Madison more than we need to defend society from predators? Are we noticing that majestic capitalist utopia also produces rape on such a prodigious scale?
Imagine if you had a system that was failing at least 85% of the time, and the outcome of that failure was mass rape. You would be all, that’s a fucked up system. Except when it’s the law protecting private property though hey.
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