According to current laws in the District of Columbia, which houses six universities within the city limits, victims must essentially seek permission to allege rape.

Rape kits, which are almost always necessary for prosecution against a rapist, are not distributed unless a representative from the Metropolitan Police Department's Sexual Assault Unit gives the go-ahead, which is based on a subjective analysis of the truth of their statement.

Join rape victims in the District, like the unidentified woman currently pressing charges against the District because of the city's dismissal of her 2006 assulat near Howard University, in telling the police department that this needs to change. Rape kits should be given to any victim who requests one.