I referred to a very specific sentence on purpose. Nobody has a right to do a cost/benefit analysis FOR someone else and tell them their opinion. They should be setting out the facts, telling them clearly that their opinion is just opinion, giving them all the options and really being supportive. Especially as to go ahead with a case like that, you need support, so it's even harder to get a conviction when the victim doesn't feel like they can get the police to do any work, never mind actually getting the damn thing to court and getting a conviction.

I was in someone's house when a rape happened there two years ago. I've not even been interviewed. The treatment cases like this get is so fucking appalling, and the police's attitude, when it's like that above, makes it worse.