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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago

... an Associated Press story detailed the reluctance of local prosecutors to pursue campus sex crimes.

Probably because chances are they were perpetrated by those in positions of authority.

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

Across the U.S., very few campus rapes are prosecuted, both because victims fear going to police and prosecutors hesitate to bring cases that can be hard to win, the AP investigation found.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago

Also because the schools intervene to try and keep it from escalating to criminal reports, the campus cops are there to protect the school, not the people at the school.

Any diversion to “academic” discipline means they don’t have to report it as part of the crime stat.

[-] hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Not true. Campuses have to report all sex crimes reported on their ground, so it you could get raped in an off-campus, they would much prefer it.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

And if it never gets reported as a crime… it’s not a “sex crime”, now is it?

Campus cops are generally paid for by the university rather than a city or state. While they are (usually,) peace officers in the legal sense; they’re still basically a private police force whose paychecks are signed by the school.

Diverting reports into academic disciplinary complaints is a common way of protecting people the school has an interest in protecting.

The school gets involved and tries everything they can to protect themselves, including pressuring victims to accept internal processes that generally go no where instead of going to a proper court of law.

It’s the same as workplace HR departments. They’re going to protect whoever hurts them the least.

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