An older report from the Human Rights Watch brought anew by a story in the Washington Post by Kathleen Parker entitled "Snap, Crackle, Pot" in which Mr. Howard Wooldridge of LEAP talks about untested rape kits.
A major contributing factor to untested rape kits? Labs being too busy testing for drugs, and cops too worried about enforcing drug laws.
Even if you believe drug use as immoral, unethical, or otherwise 'evil' behavior, I'm hard pressed to think of a single person that would, as an individual choice, say it's better to analyze someone's urine to detect the presence of prohibited substances than a rape kit to find out the identity of an attacker.
But by all means, prove me wrong in the commentary - then please keep your integrity by going around and telling rape victims that people getting high is worse than what's happened to them.
This is yet another example of how policy is completely divorced from the human experience, and I cringe every time I think about this travesty. I cringe, unless, of course, I'm not in the middle of being fuming mad.
Posted by Malakkar Vohryzek