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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes a social worker will stop the rapists and robbers!![/quote]

Police are terrible at dealing with rape victims, and solving rapes. Heck, police are often rapists themselves: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/albertsamaha/this-teenager-accused-two-on-duty-cops-of-rape-she-had-no?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bffbsoml&ref=bffbsoml&fbclid=IwAR0S_1RgZTeIadOMkG1RiPqLPHcl0VvIsE5oh0nmjNLlDHgDxNmw4lHkK8U

Our current system does not work for rape victims, so threatening women with "what will you do about rapes?" isn't going to work. [/quote]

[b]You still have not identified any other alternative to protecting women[/b].  And saying "police are often rapists themselves" is bs. "Often"? really? show me some statistics and not some anecdote. [/quote]

DP. Others on this thread did. [/quote]

Social workers and EMTs? Is that it? [/quote]
You're an uncompromising cynic and that's okay...you don't get it because you don't WANT to get it.
As many have said - nobody is suggesting getting rid of cops altogether.
Why you can't seem to grasp this despite it being repeated again and again is beyond me.
In any case I'll make a meager attempt to break it down in simple terms for you anyway.
So, first of all you need to understand the truths about rape.  Three-fourths of rapes are committed by a man the woman knows.  
So unless cops come along as chaperones from now on there's nothing they can do to prevent some jerk a woman willingly chose to go out with from committing date rape.
As for the other 1/4 of rapes committed by random creeps hiding in bushes and breaking into women's homes that they've been stalking for months guess what...
Unless cops are going to personally shadow every woman on the street they can't be there on the scene like Superman to stop those creepers from committing their heinous acts.  
I don't know the stats but I'd be willing to wager less than even the way our system is set up now the cops show up [b]after-the-fact[/b] to try and catch the guy not before to prevent the crime.
So what are we doing to prevent the crime?  That's where redirecting funding goes.  There is evidence to suggest that some prevention programs might reduce men's actual sexual aggression.
You know where those programs could be really useful - college campuses (you know a huge percentage of rapes are committed on college campuses, right?) and prisons (you know rapists are infamous for being repeat offenders, right?)

So how bout this...how about you stop looking for holes in the idea for a split second and actually stop and think about what is being suggested in terms of the reforms and reallocation's being suggested.
Nobody's taking away cops.  (Yeah let me say it again since that simple point keeps slipping past you).
The idea is to reinvest in social services to proactively address the issues and environments that make our society to crime-ridden to begin with.
Which is a better investment...$100 to send 5 cops out to a rape scene [b]after [/b]victims have been violated or $1 to have a counselor teach men not to act on their sexual aggression and reducing the number of rapes altogether?[/quote]

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