Why Don’t Cops Believe Rape Victims?

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5. Sadly, this is all doublespeak for the real truth

Police don't believe rape victims for 2 reasons:

1. Most of the men are part of the "fraternity" that believes women lie about rape, and

2. The women officers, like most women, subconsciously blame the victim because it assuages their own fears. (i.e., "She did something stupid/wrong, which I would never do, therefore I will never be attacked.&quot

Any sort of trauma--rape, beating, witnessing a horrible accident--will cause the reactions described in this study. Yet no cop will fail to believe someone who claims to have been beaten and mugged. This only happens with rape.

Not because the victim reacted differently, but because society reacts differently.