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Crime & Justice

The Provability Gap: Why It's Hard For Prosecutors To Prove Rape Cases Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

Nadia Hamdan

Part III in a four-part series on why sexual assault cases are so hard to prosecute in Austin. Warning: This story contains descriptions of sexual…
Crime & Justice

The Provability Gap: How One Survivor Was 'Retraumatized' After Reporting Her Rape

Nadia Hamdan

Part I in a four-part series on why sexual assault cases are so hard to prosecute in Austin. Warning: This story contains a graphic description of sexual…
Austin

Manley Says Austin Police Agree With Much Of State Audit Of How It Classifies Rape Cases

Audrey McGlinchy

The Austin Police Department agrees with most of the results of a state audit that found police wrongly classified a number of rape cases in 2017,…