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This is not at all an accident-- this is by design. It's meant to keep the populations for whom sexual violence is most prevalent thinking that they need the police to protect them from sexual predators.
And yet, let's look at what happens when people actually report a sexual assault to the police. Without an advocate present, 81% were discouraged from filing an official report BY THE POLICE. Even with an advocate present, that number only drops to 59%.pic.twitter.com/dcFi1POiev
As we see from national numbers across five different sites, between 80-90% of sexual assault cases THAT WERE REPORTED TO THE POLICE were never charged or even referred for prosecution.pic.twitter.com/HupqwwGyiO
And this is absolutely by design. Whenever you bring up abolishing the police, people say, "But what about rapists and child molesters?" But so what? The police already aren't dealing with them. This is *exactly* why we need strong and local community defense organizations.
Remember that the state does not tolerate any violence that does not serve the state, or challenges the state in any way. So when there are mass crimes going unpunished, when sexual predators are allowed to walk free, that is directly serving the repressive goals of the state.
So there's no divide between those who want the police abolished and those who want to see sexual predators face accountability. Without facing the violence of the state for challenging its legitimacy, communities would be free to confront sexual predators themselves.
The goals of police and prison abolition and confronting sexual violence are the same thing. As long as the police have a monopoly on violence, there's no chance we can adequately confront sexual predators.
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