In a small Seattle suburb, a rape investigation sparks a war over speech and power.

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    5 hours ago

    They seemingly exhausted avenues of investigation and when that was inconclusive they were forced to seek intervention against a person harassing numerous staff members.

    They did something, against a person whom could be positively identified snd their actions proved beyond a doubt. Your position is a false equivalence.

    Edit: also you seem to be suggesting that individuals including the clerk had power to perform some action but instead chose to sue. This is ridiculous.

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      Mayor Katherine Ross and Police Chief Brian Lynch were both there at the hearing, supporting the clerk

      Lux believes police botched the investigation, pointing to lost evidence, unpursued leads, and the involvement of an officer who’d been suspended for shoddy follow-through on sexual assault cases.

      The mayor and police chief have the power here, to either address the issues in their police department on a policy level or by investigating the officer that’s bad at his job. Did they do anything?

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        4 hours ago

        If you read the article first you would know

        Snoqualmie police say they’ve already investigated, and even had an outside agency review the case to double check their work

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          3 hours ago

          I did

          They covered their butts instead of offering a traumatised woman services.

          I know the answer is “it doesn’t work like that”, and I’m saying it should work like that.

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            Yes I suppose all police and council members, staff and dispatchers should drop everything for the forseeable future to deal with a case which has little evidence and no prime suspect.

            Otherwise they should expect 24/7 harrassment from a nut job.

            • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net
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              Why not just… Have case workers that are the main point of contact, and they manage access to services for these people? Encourage trauma therapy, etc?

              It’s pretty clear this woman was drugged, and she made it home, got hurt and shit everywhere. She needed empathy.

              But no, if you can’t get a criminal apparently the Justice system has no function. That’s broken.

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                Yea the kind of person that calls dispatch a dozen times a day ranting about conspiracies isn’t going to magically start being reasonable because they have the phone number for a case worker.

                It’s pretty clear this woman was drugged

                Toxicology results do not support this claim.

                got hurt and shit everywhere

                Last time I got hurt and shit everywhere I didn’t harass innocent people for years about it.

                Mental illness is almost certainly at play here and I would be completely unsurprised if the alleged victim were diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar.

                Also it’s a justice system not a fucking therapy system.

                She needed empathy.

                She needs a straight jacket and a bed pan.

                • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net
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                  49 minutes ago

                  You know what would be justice? The case worker getting them a diagnosis.

                  Toxicology results

                  “I reviewed the results but did not see anything of concern,” Bruton wrote in the police report, without noting what drugs were tested or if any came back positive.

                  So a non doctor decided that the result was negative, and not inconclusive. Some drugs will not test positive after a short time frame. People use these drugs for that purpose.

                  A case worker being the primary contact, would explain this and funnel people into the care they actually need. If you don’t want this, you don’t want society to take care of it’s citizens.