Let me explain why that difference matters. Now, on top of the frustrating fact that there are many, many backlogs in rape kit testing across the country, women know that cooperating with authorities and reporting your rape exposes a victim to lifetime granular surveillance at the DNA level. Now, the imperfections of DNA testing expose every rape victim who submits a test to the false positives, and people who know nothing about the strength of the case will assume that being suspect or being arrested is the same as being convicted: https://gizmodo.com/when-bad-dna-tests-lead-to-false-convict...
I can imagine a world where people think victims deserve the crimes committed against them because victims are more likely to be in a DNA database. Lovely statistics.
Let me explain why that difference matters. Now, on top of the frustrating fact that there are many, many backlogs in rape kit testing across the country, women know that cooperating with authorities and reporting your rape exposes a victim to lifetime granular surveillance at the DNA level. Now, the imperfections of DNA testing expose every rape victim who submits a test to the false positives, and people who know nothing about the strength of the case will assume that being suspect or being arrested is the same as being convicted: https://gizmodo.com/when-bad-dna-tests-lead-to-false-convict...