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Barb Bradley Hagerty
@barbarabradleyh
Contributing writer @theAtlantic. Following crime, injustice, psychology, and spirituality. Author of books on midlife and spirituality. Formerly @NPR.
Jul 15, 2019 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
1/ Rape is the easiest violent crime to get away with. I’ve spent nearly a year researching why for @TheAtlantic—talking with victims, police, prosecutors, and researchers. Here’s what I found. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… 2/ We’ve heard about the hundreds of thousands of rape kits sitting, untested, in evidence rooms. But the rape-kit scandal is just a visible symbol of a pervasive problem. Even in the #MeToo era and the age of DNA testing, police reflexively disbelieve women.