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GreenKnight127 posted...

And at that moment.......everything stops. Unless I have something concrete to offer them, the chances of them getting a warrant to investigate or arrest my neighbor are slim to none. Sure, they might be able to go over and question him, but he could just deny it. That's assuming the cops don't have anything else better to do and decide to go over and question him at all.

Assuming you actually do have reason to suspect him (maybe you glanced in his window one day and saw something on his computer monitor or something), that's sufficient for a warrant.

Again, it's not up to you to prove anything. That's not your job, you're not equipped to handle it. If you say "I saw my neighbour looking at kiddie porn on his computer", you'll likely be asked to make a sworn statement to that effect - that would probably be enough for the cops to get a warrant to search your neighbour's house and seize his electronics for further analysis. If it's later found that no such material exists on his computer, you could potentially be charged with making a false statement. Either way, the investigation is done by the cops, not you.

GreenKnight127 posted...

In 2018, the game has changed. Women easily could get evidence to support a claim of abuse. Cell phones are everywhere. Social media can make tracking down witnesses very easy. So many streets, businesses, and intersections have cameras. If some guy does something terrible to a woman, there can be evidence to support it.

This ignores the fact that the allegations coming to light now didn't happen in 2018; they happened in a different era, with very different social standards.

Take it from someone who was around at the time, it was not the same environment back then.

GreenKnight127 posted...

If a woman wakes up in a frat house, and believes she might have been raped.......she could easily take pictures of bruises or questionable marks on her body the next morning in the bathroom. She could easily walk into a doctor's office and get swabs for possible DNA evidence. Build a case. Value your life. Seek justice.

You realise this is exactly what the #MeToo movement is about, yes? Past victims coming forward to say "Yes, this happens. Yes, this is still happening. Yes, we should take allegations seriously. And above all, Yes, victims should come forward."

Saying "Well, these women who are coming forward 30 years after the fact were clearly faking it" is going to have the exact opposite effect. And given some of the posts in this very topic, it's not surprising that the issue of women (and men) suffering in silence after being the victims of sexual assault is still a pertinent one.

GreenKnight127 posted...

Don't just sit in silence for years and wait for the guy to get successful and THEN decide to pounce. That shit makes her lose all credibility.

Why? Why do you think this is a deliberate choice?

Do you think Ford *knew* that Kavanaugh would one day be up for Supreme Court Justice and just decided to wait until exactly that moment to spring the trap she had been deviously plotting for years? Of course not. Most likely, she is behaving in exactly the same way as a lot of other women who eventually came forward - they say their abusers name suddenly splashed all over the headlines, it brought back unpleasant memories, and they finally decided to summon up their courage and right a past wrong.

Again, it's not like Ford never mentioned this before - her therapist has it in his notes going back to 2012 and her friends have stated she mentioned it to them before that. It's just that she never bothered going to the cops about it, presumably because she realised the potential for a criminal conviction is vanishingly small and, as such, it wasn't worth the effort.
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