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In reply to the discussion: White DUers: Tell Your Stories [View all]femmedem
(8,196 posts)And it's an anonymous forum.
I wish I had told the story when I ran for office, though. Because in my city, when the police union's contract was up for negotiation, for weeks they publicized a false story (in the press, on the radio) about a woman being randomly raped downtown so people would be up in arms about how we needed more cops.(The victim was a prostitute who quickly recanted, but who had initially said she was being raped in order to avoid being charged with prostitution.) Even after the story was proven to be false, one of the other candidates used the story in the group editorial board interview. I wish I had said I was a rape survivor in order to have more credibility saying how offensive it was to use rape to paint our city as dangerous in order to get more police funding.
I told the story to the police during my interview with the police union, though. That was gutsier, because I told them how insensitive the police were to me (joking about the guy's body type to me when I identified him!) and how I'd felt more betrayed by the criminal justice system than by a random act of violence.