Digital strip searches: why this small change to the PCSC bill means a huge deal to rape victimsDeputy Chief Constable Sarah Crew is one of the main authoritative voices in the documentary and is also the lead police officer for rape in England and Wales. With one in four women having been a victim of sexual assault, Crew accepts the criticism that the police and Crown Prosecution Service have received in recent times.
She mentions that the rate of reporting sexual crimes has climbed in the last five years but the rate of conviction is steadily declining: just over 1% of rape cases end in a conviction. “It’s bitterly disappointing,” Crew says.Fewer than 20% of rape victims go to the police The process of obtaining a conviction is a lengthy one, especially in cases with limited amounts of evidence. We see that from a lack of CCTV or DNA evidence, for example, cases regularly don’t meet the CPS’s evidential points-based system.
For Deborah, picture messages and the word of the defendant meant that mutuality can be argued as a defence. As well as not meeting “the evidential threshold for a CPS charging decision”, the likelihood of a rape case reaching the CPS remains staggeringly low.“Unfortunately the system we’ve got isn’t a fair system – but on one side, I suppose you can say it is because it means that innocent people don’t get convicted for things they haven’t done and it’s innocent until proven guilty.
“I felt like I was – a little bit – on trial. I was thinking, are they looking at my life? What are they potentially looking for?”Cops On Trial: why everyone is talking about this damning Channel 4 Dispatches documentary into abuse of women by police officersWhile lack of sufficient evidence is a major contributor to a rape case not going to court, there are other factors at play.
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