Comments on: St. Louis Cops To Local Rapists: You Go, Girl!

By: Twisty

Twisty — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:38:57 +0000

Well, color me shocked. Someone in St Louis dares to concede that prostituted women can be raped.

By: Becker

Becker — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:37:52 +0000

Bringing this back outta the archives to mention that rape reports in St Louis are up 20 percent, now that cops can’t throw the reports away anymore.

http://tinyurl.com/tpgb3

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I don’t know if not losing my horror over men’s insane distrust and belittling of womenkind is good or bad sometimes. My jaw hits the ground even as it’s muttering, “of course”.

By: lacalda

lacalda — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

In the early 90s some friends and I uncovered similar actions on our university campus. We raised lots of hell. Some pricks’ careers were prematurely shortened. It was a beautiful thing.

Every time I see publicity claiming only one or two rapes reported on a campus in a year, I know that there is systematic lying going on and that women are being victimized.

This is horrifying.

By: Summer

Summer — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

A Gala Ball? Perhaps. Maybe they’ll even spring for another new shoppin’ mall.

Anything to keep the city looking pretty.

By: Finn

Finn — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I live in StL.

This rape coverup story made my stomach turn.

But, it’s hard to know which way to turn in StL. If you had expressed doubt about the decreasing crime statistics in the city, you would’ve been labeled a racist.

By: AndiF

AndiF — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I followed the link and read all the Dispatch articles. The police department deserves unbridled condemnation and the Dispatch should get commendations from the community.

The police force there has clearly been taking lessons in specious logic and disingenuous rationalization from the Bush Administration. My vote for Most-Like-Iraq-War-Justifcation-In-Spirit were the claims built on the rape victims being too upset to be coherent or cooperative. And I’m guessing that in cases where the woman was calm, they decided the rape must be “unfounded” because what woman would be calm if she had been raped.

By: Twisty

Twisty — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

But, it’s hard to know which way to turn in StL. If you had expressed doubt about the decreasing crime statistics in the city, you would’ve been labeled a racist.

So I’m curious, Finn. Was there any “you’re a racist” blowback that you’re aware of when the Post first broke the story?

By: ae

ae — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

What Sam said. Thud.

I’m feeling weepy today thinking about cold, wet old people and cold, wet poor people in LA and the world over, and this just put me over the edge. I need to sleep for about 100 years.

Twisty, thanks for your outrage. I feel just a little less crazy because of it.

xo,
ae

By: metamanda

metamanda — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Ugh, I’m from St. Louis too (but not there anymore). But knowing how things tend to work there, lemme guess… a disproportionate number of these women were black?