We can voice our outrage at a system that appears to be broken or we can start to question whether that system was ever designed to work in the way we& #39;ve been led to believe it should.

We& #39;ve inherited an archaic criminal justice system that was... https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/jun/30/cps-secretly-dropped-weak-cases-say-rights-groups">https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/...

primarily designed to protect property/wealth/power. Its primary function these days seems to be to maintain public perception of personal safety and security. So we have this paradoxical situation where police and prosecutors are obliged to reassure the public that when it comes

to a crime as devastating as a sexual offence they & #39;take these things very seriously& #39; and & #39;people absolutely should report& #39;.

But if you are raped and you report the chances of that report leading to a conviction is roughly 1%.

It& #39;s the criminal justice version of the Emperor& #39;s new clothes.

So the shocking thing for the public to realise isn& #39;t that the clothes are broken. It& #39;s that they were never there in the first place.

Until enough of us can realise that (and care enough to do something about it)

more people each year will go through the painful process of realising firsthand that the system they were led to believe was there to offer them a sense of justice isn& #39;t fit for the job.

The system as it stands sets us all up to fail - victims, professionals, and the public.

When we seek change we need to be bold enough to search for something fundamentally different.

#RapeJusticeFail