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What do you do when you don't have the funding to address a perpetual backlog of unanalyzed rape kits? Ask drivers to foot the bill when applying for a driver's license:
Across the country, there's a backlog of kits containing potential evidence of sexual assaults. Victim advocates say the situation threatens public safety. Lawmakers in dozens of states are pushing for funding, and in Texas, one state representative has offered an innovative solution.
Thousands of rape kits sit sealed and untested in forensics labs and law enforcement offices in Texas. What's missing is state and local funding to pay to analyze the evidence in many of those kits.
If state Rep. Victoria Neave has her way, residents could help chip in. When Texans go to the Department of Public Safety office to apply for a driver's license, they'd be asked if they'd like to help the state pay to test DNA evidence from sexual assault cases — in the same way they're asked if they want to donate to support veterans or organ donation.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Friday April 14 2017, @08:48PM (2 children)
You are SO right!!! Those ISIS folks are SUCH CHAMPIONS of women's rights and should not be perturbed in their mission. We should let them carry on - not only in the middle east, but in Europe as well!
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday April 14 2017, @11:46PM (1 child)
We bomb ISIS, but we fund Saudi Arabia and their oppression of women.
We bomb ISIS, but we fund Israel and their sectarian Apartheid.
US women (and men) who have been raped are owned justice, especially when step 1 is as simple as processing actual hard evidence. Even without touching the Pentagon budget, you could start with the cost of one Florida golf trip.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Saturday April 15 2017, @09:27AM
"we fund Saudi Arabia and their oppression of women."
Wrong. We defend Saudi Arabia and sell weapons to them, and conveniently, politicians in this country receive campaign donations from them.
The former Secretary of State and Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton is largely responsible for facilitating that arrangement in her role as Secretary.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/08/obama-administration-offered-115-billion-weapons-saudi-arabia-report [theguardian.com]
http://www.globalresearch.ca/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-from-hillary-clintons-state-department/5498517 [globalresearch.ca]
"We bomb ISIS, but we fund Israel and their sectarian Apartheid."
Are you an anti-Semite?
Just kidding - I hate the control that Israel has over politicians in this country, as well. But again, the ROOT of the problem is not truly the US funding Israel, it is Jews in this country funding the politicians that is the problem.
There's always that argument to be made, that money for X could have gone to Y. Have you spent any money on car repairs recently? Well, instead of selling or donating your vehicle, taking the bus, and donating that money to rape victims you are essentially supporting rapists, am I right? It's just a really weak argument. The world cannot stop because of a problem that has been happening since before there were even human societies. Rape is terrible, murder is more terrible. I would stop a murderer before I stopped a rapist, and would much sooner stop a murder-rapist. That is what the members of ISIS are - would you like some supporting evidence?
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/06/06/19-yazidi-girls-burned-alive-for-refusing-to-have-sex-with-their-isis-captors.html [foxnews.com]
I could go on. So which is more important - processing evidence for victims or preventing new, more brutal and deadly attacks?
You can't say killing ISIS makes women in those regions less safe. Or are you one of the feminists who believes that women are more oppressed in the US than in Saudi Arabia? Or that US women paying more for specially-scented womens deodorant domestically is a bigger problem than the hijab or stonings which happen outside of our borders?