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17 Feb 2021

James Baresel has written a scathing commentary of a report by End Violence Against Women International (EVAWI) titled, "Effective Report Writing: Using the Language of Non-Consensual Sex." Regarding the original 2006 version of the report, Baresel reveals:

  • "The most serious of these was the instruction that, in order to "better support successful prosecution," police investigators should "try to fill in details that are realistic, based on the kinds of sexual assault cases you have handled and the victims you have interviewed" as doing this will better "articulate the context of force, threat, or fear that the victim experience."
  • Detectives, in other words, are to state in their official reports that particular incidents of alleged sexual assault included actions which the complainants themselves never claimed happened but which, by being typical of the type of incidents alleged, and can communicate the "feeling" of such incidents."

Commenting on the updated 2019 version, Baresel goes on to reveal:

  • "While these statements are not found in the revised manual, the paragraph that followed them in the original remains unchanged and continues to refer to "'missing information' [details that are realistic] that is filled into the report." It would seem that those receiving instruction from EVAWI are still taught to include made up "realistic details" in official reports despite the removal of such teaching from the written manual."

Do these statements in the EVAWI reports constitute overt advice on how to falsify a police report? We'll let you decide!

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