Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Rape In Wasilla
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Writing the last post got me to thinking.
Wasilla, AK under Mayor Sarah Palin started charging rape victims in 2000 for their rape evidence kits. It was stated that these kits cost between $300 to $1,200 apiece.
OK, we all know already that, as part of the Karl Rove farm team, Palin took office and immediately fired all the professionals working in the Wasilla City Hall, and replaced them with close friends, school chums, etc., creating a team that would protect her at all costs. She repeated this approach upon becoming Governor.
Just like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney did with all the federal agencies in Washington, D.C.
So, new Wasilla Police Chief Charlie Fannon, the bright-light lawman that Palin installed after firing all the professionals within Wasilla government offices, and the man who instituted the kit charge for Mayor Palin, rebutted the State of Alaska's passage of laws to prohibit them from this foul attack on women bysaying the law will require the city and communities to come up with more funds to cover the costs of the forensic exams.
How much extra cash could that BE? you ask.According to Fannon, the new law will cost the Wasilla Police Department approximately $5,000 to $14,000 a year to collect evidence for sexual assault cases.
Ultimately it is the criminal who should bear the burden of the added costs, Fannon said.
Yes, an amazing two-fer from Charlie Fannon. Women are criminals. And... $5,000 to $14,000 a year IN RAPE KITS??
HOW MUCH DAMNED RAPE DO THEY HAVE IN WASILLA, AK?
OK, let's do the math. Let's assume the $300 kit is for straightforward medical procedures and the $1,200 kit is for more complex medical issues.
Low end: $5,000 extra cost / $300 ea. = 17 rapes.
High end: $14,000 extra cost / $1,200 ea. = 12 rapes.
So, in 2000, the police chief of a town of then only 5,469 people had between one and two dozen REPORTED AND FILED rapes on his docket. So, Chief Fannon, how many of these rape charges ended in arrest, prosecution and conviction?
And if Wasilla is anywhere close to the national average estimate of only 16% of rapes are even reported, what must the actual Wasilla rape numbers be?
Also Chief Fannon, if the population of Wasilla in 2008 stands at 7,025 residents, how much of that 1,556 person increase comes from the forced births of rape victims?
An interested America wants to know.
Now, THIS is the leadership that America needs.
posted by Gotham 5:36 PM
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