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Was the beating necessary? Rape is bad, but all it takes is the cop handcuffing the guy and locking him in the backseat until he can calm the girl down, possibly calling someone else in to pick up the rapist.

The cop definitely should be investigated for police brutality, but this doesn't necessarily mean that he was in excessive force. He could have been justified (such as if the guy was fighting back) and thusly not guilty of brutality, but we don't know that until the investigation is concluded.

In any case, it is the cop's fault that the rapist was being beaten and it is the rapist's fault that the girl was being raped. The girl was stupid for getting in the car, yes, but the girl getting in the car does not automatically mean that the rapist must rape her.

The reason why "we" point fingers at the rape victim isn't because rape is special but rather because this happens all the time in criminal justice. The defense will often try to point the blame towards whatever poor judgement on the victim's part might have led towards the situation in which the crime occured, especially if the evidence against the client appears to be insurmountable.

Hell, if it were possible, I'm sure someone would defend the 9/11 hijackers, saying that it's not their fault someone built the WTC towers so tall.

Now that's just unfortunate. If I were a bystander and I saw it happening, I WOULD BEAT THE CRAP out of the guy raping her with all of my power. Now, the problem is, cops are supposed to uphold the law, not use brutality. I really hope the cop, if this story is actually real, didn't lose his job, which is quite possible. Rape is a good majority of the time the man's fault. There are a few exceptions to this every now and then, like a girl going, "oh crap, nvm... I dont wanna have sex anymore", in that case there's not much she can do about it. But typically- it is the man's fault.

Oh, of course the rape wasn't necessary. That much was self-evident.

But what about the other situation? If I do something stupid and I'm beaten as a result, is it my fault I got a beating?

I don't care what the girl did, the rapist is responsible for his own actions. Girls don't have mind-control.

I agree. In my perfect world the rapist would be looked down upon more than the murderer. (The rape victim suffers longer.) But we can't always get what we want, can we?

One thing that no one has mentioned is that by and large rape is not a crime of sexuality, it's a crime of power. A man doesn't rape a woman because he thinks she's hott, he asks her out on a date. A man rapes a woman to prove that he is more powerful than her. Think about it this way: there are little old ladies who get raped (gray hair, wrinkles, cane, the whole thing) does anyone really think that the man who raped them was sexually attracted to someone old enough to be his grandmother?

Rape is always the perpetrator's fault, because it's about that person trying to take power away from someone else.

Look at it this way: I'm driving through a bad part of town in my BMW (who cares why, maybe I'm lost) and my tire goes flat. I get out to take a look and someone notices the flashy car, the nice clothes and jewelry so they rob me. I put myself in a bad situation, is it my fault that I got robbed? No it's the fault of the man who robbed me. No lawyer or anyone for that matter would ever go to court with the premise that "he deserved to be robbed, he was a wealthy person in a bad part of town." Why do peope follow the same premise with rape? Bottom line: No means no (even if you are just about to stick it in) and no one has the right to victimize anyone else.

However, as was previously mentioned. Robbery is easy to prove. If someone robs me, the police will find evidence of that (my watch in his pocket for example). Evidence of rape is much more difficult to nail down (that's why women are encouraged to immeadiately report it and not stop home to shower or anything.)

Then again, my views on this whole subject may be skewed as the person who has ever been closest to me in my entire life was a victim of such action. I have spent many restless nights in angry contemplation about what had happened to her. I would even go so far as to say that a law making it so that rapists once proven as a rapist would be forced into surgery making them un able to reproduce or even feel the "joy" of such actions. The surgery would have to be reversible though since the court system these days sucks and he or she might not really have been a rapist lol. Then again, (for a guy at least, not sure anything about girls) going to jail and being raped yourself is almost punishment enough it seems.