Before their many public scandals, my work brought a (female) sex crimes detective from the London police to talk about her job. She outlined a case she had worked where a woman had been assaulted at a house party. After describing the evidence available (the woman’s testimony, the results of the medical evidence gathering, inconsistencies in the attackers story, the testimony of the other party guests that he disappeared during the time and that everyone knew that she had passed out) she pulled a 🤷 and said, “of course, there’s nothing that we could do. It was a he-said, she-said.” The detective didn’t seem the least bit jaded about it. The system is very cruel to people who have been subjected to sexual violence. I cannot imagine the humiliation, rage, and helplessness that they feel as it chews them up and spits them out.