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No Backlog: Why the Epidemic of Untested Rape Kits Is Not a Symbol of Insufficient Police Budgets But Instead a Failure to Investigate Rape

No Backlog: Why the Epidemic of Untested Rape Kits Is Not a Symbol of Insufficient Police Budgets But Instead a Failure to Investigate Rape

by Enforce Rape Laws | Nov 1, 2017 | Uncategorized

By Meaghan Ybos Source: In Justice Today October 11, 2017 A sex crimes detective with the Memphis Police Department will keep her job despite leaking confidential investigative files to the family of a rape suspect, the Commercial Appeal reported last week. Before...
Betrayal: MPD sex crimes detective tips off family of rape suspect, keeps job

Betrayal: MPD sex crimes detective tips off family of rape suspect, keeps job

by Enforce Rape Laws | Oct 6, 2017 | News

By Marc Perrusquia Source: The Commercial Appeal October 6, 2017 When Marcus Deshun Gibson was booked last March on an aggravated rape charge, his situation looked as foreboding as the razor wire topping the Shelby County Jail that held him. But Gibson had an inside...
Memphis gun violence is the target of new ‘Fed Up’ campaign

Memphis gun violence is the target of new ‘Fed Up’ campaign

by Enforce Rape Laws | Jul 26, 2017 | News

By Ryan Poe Source: The Commercial Appeal July 24, 2017 Hours after an off-duty Shelby County sheriff’s deputy was wounded Monday in Downtown Memphis, local law enforcement officials and prosecutors announced they will seek maximum sentences for gun violence as...
PERL calls on Mayor to improve sex crimes services, disavow Memphis Says NO MORE

PERL calls on Mayor to improve sex crimes services, disavow Memphis Says NO MORE

by Enforce Rape Laws | May 31, 2017 | News

Press conference today at 9:15 AM at 125 N. Main St. Memphis, Tennessee — May 31, 2017 — The Memphis-based advocacy group People for the Enforcement of Rape Laws (PERL) calls on Mayor Strickland to improve rape policing and remove himself from the...
Survival Guide for Sexual Violence in Memphis

Survival Guide for Sexual Violence in Memphis

by Enforce Rape Laws | May 19, 2017 | Uncategorized

Our new survival guide is here. You can pick up copies from our office at 3573 Southern Ave. Also, you may print them yourself from the electronic file. As always, we provide these materials free of charge. To help us offset printing costs, please click here....
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