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Re:Microsoft Intern’s Rape Claim Highlights Struggle to Comb... by pjc50 on Saturday December 16, 2017 @03:55PM (#15942037)
> If our police forces are failing to press charges against rapists, shouldn't that be a big priority to change?

This is also a priority as the police are generally bad at this apart from a few places which have made it a priority. There is a national backlog in the US of unprocessed rape evidence kits: http://beta.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-rape-kits-legisl...

> What should the standard of evidence be for Microsoft?

See other comment, but civil standards rather than criminal standards sound like a good place to start. But really consider the normal standards of "evidence" at work; people are fired for all sorts of reasons on the flimsiest of evidence all the time. Remember that Microsoft was a pioneer of "stack ranking" which would sack 10% of employees annually simply for relative performance on the judgement of their manager.

> I just feel like many of these articles stop short of discussing obvious questions

A separation is usually maintained between "news" and "opinion", but I agree that journalism is often very bad at giving context.

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Re:Microsoft Intern’s Rape Claim Highlights Struggle to Comb... by aero142 on Saturday December 16, 2017 @04:13PM (#15942145)
I don’t believe that a police determination that this case would not be presecuted is a matter of opinion. The facts of why that decision was made is a very important fact that is relevant for me in how I feel about Microsofts actions.
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Re:Microsoft Intern’s Rape Claim Highlights Struggle to Comb... by pjc50 on Saturday December 16, 2017 @04:28PM (#15942235)
> I don’t believe that a police determination that this case would not be presecuted is a matter of opinion

I think you might want to research this a bit more; it's often a matter of prejudice.

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Re:Microsoft Intern’s Rape Claim Highlights Struggle to Comb... by aero142 on Saturday December 16, 2017 @05:05PM (#15942438)
What I was responding to was a claim that the police investigation was not included in the article because news tries to separate it's news from opinion. If the police did not decide to press charges without any reason, then this can be discussed as part of a news article.
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