Turns out, Cornell's police training is just as bad as we feared
The bar for handling trauma is apparently on the floor, and local law enforcement is tripping over it.
A recent lawsuit against Cornell University is pulling back the curtain on how cops talk to victims of assault. Spoiler: they aren't exactly trained to be helpful. Most officers lack even basic knowledge of how trauma messes with a victim's memory and behavior.
Instead of a safe environment, many victims get treated like unreliable witnesses because they don't give a perfect, linear movie-script story. It turns out that when you interrogate someone who has been through a nightmare, treating them like a suspect is a great way to blow the investigation and hurt the person all over again.
It is almost as if treating people with basic humanity should be the default, not an elective course for detectives.
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