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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Some Quotable Quotes
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Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 06:17:52 EST
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In article <156@ubc-cs.UUCP> andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews) writes:
>From _Against Our Will_, by Susan Brownmiller; Simon and Schuster, 1975.
>
>          "...I paid a visit to my local precinct in Greenwich Village
>     and asked a sergeant to show me some rape statistics.  He politely
>     obliged.  That month there had been thirty-five rape complaints,
>     an advance of ten over the same month for the previous year.  The
>     precinct had made two arrests.
>          "`Not a very impressive record,' I offered.
>          "`Don't worry about it,' the sergeant assured me.  `You know
>     what these complaints represent?'
>          "`What do they represent?' I asked.
>          "`Prostitutes who didn't get their money,' he said firmly,
>     closing the book."

I read in a newspaper somewhere that actual prostitution rape is a serious
problem.  It seems that they tell no one (who would believe them?), and that
the rapes are often more violent than usual.  Telling an attacker that he is
getting a freebie only enrages him.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720