San Francisco, CA – The twisted priorities of police departments in the United States should be obvious to anyone who has ever been a victim of a serious crime, or anyone who has been arrested for a nonviolent offense. Officers spend their days pulling over motorists in hopes of finding someone traveling with drugs or other prohibited items, or attempt to steal their money — meanwhile, rapes and murders continue to go unsolved. To make matters worse, it is being discovered that some of the worst crimes are never even being investigated.
Heather Marlowe of San Francisco has had the unfortunate experience of relying on her local police department to investigate a horrific crime of which she was the victim. Sadly, her case was not taken seriously and was never thoroughly investigated, and now she is suing the city and the police department.
In 2010, Marlowe was drugged and raped. Immediately following the traumatic experience, she did everything that police suggest a person in her situation do. Marlowe immediately reported the crime to police and went to the hospital for a rape kit examination. She stayed attentive to her case and found that the police were not only failing to investigate it, they had never even tested the rape kit.
Marlowe was able to track down a suspect, but instead of testing his DNA and testing the DNA on the rape kit, the police ordered her to put herself into contact with him again and attempt to lure a confession out of him. She was told by police that if she did not meet with her alleged rapist that they would not look into prosecuting him.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/woman-sues-police-department-rape-kit-untested-years/#Sr8lq9cSmVegr361.99
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