So here's my case, in a nut shell.

It's needed. Sexual assaults on campuses is an epidemic. Women have a 20% chance of being sexually assaulted during their academic career, and of these women only 12% make a police report. Also consider that 90% of college rapes are committed by serial rapists, and that 12% starts seeming pretty terrifying.

These men need to be in prison.

As many must know, mandated reporting is something typically associated with vulnerable populations. Consider the above figures and think about how appropriate "vulnerable" is as a descriptor. As time has progressed, I'm more and more sure mandated reporting is necessary and would do far more good than harm.

There are important things to consider along with this.

Will reporting decrease? Probably. But I'd argue it wouldn't decrease nearly enough to outweigh the significant influx of serial rapists being investigated by the authorities.

Impact on victims. Not every victim wants to cooperate. Note how reporting suspicion of rape doesn't force victims to make official statements, nor does it involve convincing them to. Victim support needs significant improvements and necessarily would have to go along with implementing mandated reporting.

Conversation can continue about this, and I'm surely missing important points here. I'd particularly like to hear people's thoughts about whether women in college could be considered a vulnerable population and whether this would justify mandating reporting rape/sexual assault to the authorities.

Posted this in the wrong politics sub forum, apologies.

Great job, Dibbers. You made a third thread for your AIDS that continues to show you have no idea about mandated reporting.

I've forgotten more about mandated reporting than you know about it.

Please try to contribute substance or kindly GTFO.

You haven't even laid out a proposal for mandated reporting.

Imagine it as being similar to what you'd see at any high school.

Colleges are different from high schools in any of a large number of important ways.

You should keep your criticism as vague and not constructive as possible.

I can't be any more specific than your proposed plan.

It's clear you aren't a fan of the idea, and equally clear that you're unwilling to share why. Why you're unwilling? Probably because you're Fly's mindless parrot.

It's because I have literally no idea what your proposal is.

Make faculty and staff mandated reporters.

Of what?

Jaywalking.

Only jaywalking that they witness, or do they report rumors of jaywalking?

Again, you clearly aren't familiar with how mandated reporting works. As expected.

Correct. I have literally no idea what you are proposing. Because you haven't proposed it.

Dib, do you mean that all institutions should be required to report to the police all criminal acts reported to them by a victim as having taken place within* that institution? Or maybe some subset of that such as violent criminal acts

*I appreciate that 'within' is somewhat vague.

How about something like this. Bear in mind I have no idea what I'm talking about or how colleges are organized, and this is solely for the sake of argument:

If a student of the university reports that they have been sexually assaulted to any faculty or employee of the university, that person is required by law to report this to the appropriate organization within the school that handles student code of conduct violations. That board is required by law to make a report to the police on behalf of the student, regardless of any other disciplinary actions taken. They are also required to disclose that they have made this report to the student that reported the assault.

The requirement only applies to cases where a student is reporting that they have been assaulted themselves. The requirement does not allow for the school to make a determination about the merits of the allegation or whether a crime has been committed, they just report everything.

No, your problem is you #dudeliterally don't know how mandated reporting works. As evidenced by your "rumors" comment. Which is fine, but you should probably refrain from smugness. Makes you look silly.

Mostly I'm focusing on reporting suspicion of sex crimes, given the exceptionally high prevalence of sexual assaults at colleges.

Misuse of one's pole can be considered rape. Even if you were drunk.

That's exactly how mandated reporting works.

DIB, for the sake of argument, you should define mandated reporting, including who should report and what the threshold for reporting should be, as if you were making your case to an audience that has not read a single post on this forum and neither knows nor cares about any long-running conversations here.

YEAH! How dare I ask you questions about your position, a position you haven't laid out!

Take a softer line on topics (mandated reporting, for example) you aren't familiar with Mr. Mod.