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DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 08:14 PM Jul 2019

Sen. Harris: Rape kit backlog can be cleared for the cost of 'Trump's golf trips'

Sen. Kamala Harris said Thursday that if she wins the White House she’ll push Congress to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in her first term to help state law enforcement agencies process tens of thousands of untested rape kits that could help police identify perpetrators of sexual assaults.

The rape kit backlog has long been a stain on American law enforcement agencies. By some estimates, the nationwide backlog includes more than 225,000 cases in which evidence from reported sexual assaults has gone untested.

The Harris campaign in announcing the policy proposal said it would make great strides in cutting the backlog an an annual cost of about $100 million, on par with “what taxpayers have reportedly spent on President Trump’s golf trips."

“The federal government can and should prioritize justice for survivors of sex abuse, assault and rape,” Harris said in a statement. “As California’s Attorney General, I committed resources and attention to clearing a backlog of 1,300 untested rape kits at state-run labs, and we got it done within my first year in office. We need the same focus at the national level to pursue justice and help hold predators accountable.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/07/11/kamala-rape-kit-backlog-president-trump/1705345001/
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Sen. Harris: Rape kit backlog can be cleared for the cost of 'Trump's golf trips' (Original Post) DesertRat Jul 2019 OP
smart to bring up Trump's spending on personal stuff when asked about funding bigtree Jul 2019 #1
Good policy. n/t PatrickforO Jul 2019 #2
Kick mcar Jul 2019 #3
Excellent plan, and good strategy to compare to his golfing. Something of course FailureToCommunicate Jul 2019 #4
i remember back in the day when an aircraft carrier was a marker mopinko Jul 2019 #5
 

bigtree

(86,005 posts)
1. smart to bring up Trump's spending on personal stuff when asked about funding
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 08:17 PM
Jul 2019

...it's millions.

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FailureToCommunicate

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4. Excellent plan, and good strategy to compare to his golfing. Something of course
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 09:06 PM
Jul 2019

Trump said he'd be "too busy doing important stuff" to ever play much.

Go Kamala!

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mopinko

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5. i remember back in the day when an aircraft carrier was a marker
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 09:13 PM
Jul 2019

for wasted money. i remember a ms magazine article w a list of what we could have for the cost of one aircraft carrier.
cheato's golf tab is a way better unit of wasted money.

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