A plan to make the physical requirements more difficult for aspiring female US Marines by requiring full pull-ups has been postponed indefinitely. And as it stands now, women interested in becoming lady Leathernecks must meet lower physical standards than their male counterparts. But for jobs that require brute…
Yesterday, the Obama administration announced that the definition of rape will finally be updated to include shit you already probably thought should've been in there. This is important because crime rates as reported by the FBI are used to determine how much money is allotted to anti-rape initiatives and victims'…
Last week, photos of New Mexico State Police officer Bert Lopez having sex in uniform on the hood of a Honda went viral, and now he's been fired. Authorities say the encounter itself wasn't criminal, but wouldn't say whether or not Lopez was on duty at the time. Lopez has 30 days to appeal, and police won't be…
A surveillance camera set up to catch vandals in Santa Fe wound up taping a New Mexico police officer having sex with a woman in broad daylight on the hood of his car. In this news report we see a reporter approach locals and show them the pictures, which must have been awkward. The images were taken while the officer …
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What is it with county prosecutors and sexual favors? Five Tennessee women say that, as Hawkins County assistant DA, Doug Godbee offered them leniency in exchange for sex. One of the women was only 18.
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It took 13 years for law enforcement to properly investigate Helena Lazaro's brutal rape. It took far less than that for Law & Order: SVU to base an episode on her story; it airs Sept. 29, Lazaro tells us.
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A Seattle police officer clocked a 17-year-old girl after spotting her and her friends jaywalking. The girls were "verbally antagonistic toward the officer," things escalated...and so the punch was warranted, you know? Oh, and it was caught on video. Fun.
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[Los Angeles, October 22. Image via Getty]
In the year since Human Rights Watch's Sarah Tofte revealed that the LAPD had 7,000 of America's estimated 400,000 untested rape kits, Nicholas Kristof and a PBS report show it's not much better.
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If you ever wanted a step-by-step description of how a rape exam is conducted in California (your state may vary - mine does), Sarah Tofte's OpEd in the LA Times is a good place to start. It's also a good place to start wondering why some women even bother - as Tofte points out, at least 400,000 collected rape kits in…
