How Rape Affects Memory And The Brain, And Why More Police Need To Know About This

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The training can help law enforcement -- and anyone else who interviews victims of trauma -- learn how to ask questions differently: with empathy, patience, and an informed understanding of how a traumatized brain makes memories and recalls them.
43% : There isn't currently any research proving that law enforcement departments who take this training solve more rape cases.
42% : Annie Walker is still struggling to recover from her sexual assault, but it's complicated because she's also healing from the way law enforcement handled her case.
38% : But it doesn't have to be that away, according to scientists and scholars of criminal justice.
38% : Victim advocates and criminal justice scholars say this tendency to disbelieve victims is one of the reasons so few sexual assault cases end in convictions.
36% : Sexual assault survivors say interactions with law enforcement can be so intense, and so unsympathetic, that they add a secondary trauma on top of the rape.

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