Forum Overview :: Motherfucking News :: I am unhappy over this sort of thing

[quote name="Commander Tansin A. Darcos"][quote name="Worm"]Honestly I get this is Trump central and this very post is re-electing him, but your post is pretty plain as day. Some lady made a false accusation against a cop but it wasn't criminal because it wasn't a police report. In your mind this some big miscarriage of justice, like real justice would be arresting her for something she didn't actually do? Isn't that the opposite of justice?[/quote] What she did was falsely report rape to jail officials as an attempt to try to get out of whatever she was arrested for. This probably required hundreds of hours of employee time and thousands of dollars in extra costs be expended over a false report. The only thing that saved her ass from being charged for misdemeanor filing a false police report is that none of the people she reported this false crime to was a police officer. [quote]and bring up the SERIOUS PROBLEMS of false accusations against police and false claims of rape. I guess both are presumably bigger problems than real accusations against police and actual rape?[/quote] When someone legitimately reports police misconduct it allows bad apples to be punished, and, if necessary, fired and/or prosecuted. Read the opinion of the California Supreme Court about a woman who sued because a cop who pulled her over for a traffic stop raped her. <i><a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/3d/54/202.html">Mary M. v. City of Los Angeles</a></i> (1991). <b>"When law enforcement officers abuse their authority by committing crimes against members of the community, they violate the public trust. This may seriously damage the relationship between the community and its sworn protectors, by eroding the community's confidence in the integrity of its police force."</b> Beyond this is that when a woman makes a false rape report she spits in the face of every real rape victim, and perhaps making some of them in the future less likely to be believed or less likely to report it. [/quote]