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Winsor, the chief inspector of constabulary, said the watchdog had ordered in 2014 that victims should be automatically believed only for the purposes of recording a crime in official statistics.
According to Ana Maria Vidal, from Peru's National Coordinator for Human Rights, Rodriguez Garcia's testimony was "automatically believed" and the sentence "ignored what the public prosecutor was asking for", finding him guilty of "homicidio simple" rather than "homicidio calificado" and "punishing the killer with the lowest sentence in the Penal Code" - six years.
Some agencies "screen" male victims to authenticate their claims, unlike women who are automatically believed.
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That's why I disagree profoundly with Hogan-Howe's suggestion that the policy of automatically believing victims could be reversed.
But as he also observed, "If you were a French-Canadian in Montreal in the early 1940's, you did not automatically believe that this was a just war.
He indicated that there would be a rethink of the policy of automatically believing people who say they have been sexually assaulted.
A policy ordering detectives to automatically believe people who claim to have suffered rape or sexual abuse may be dropped, Britain's top police officer has said, as he battles fierce criticism over his force's investigations into high-profile figures.
The story -- I haven't read it, but what was told to me -- the story in the Village Voice is they take one line out of a deposition, which if asked that -- I forget exactly how the question was phrased, but if you're asked what is the -- do you automatically believe any allegation?
When we read a scientific article, why do we automatically believe that, whether the authors are correct or not, they are doing their best to give us a full, clear, honest, and fair account of what they observed?
Others may be hesitant to automatically believe the accusers.
I wouldn't automatically believe anything either Madonna or Lady Gaga claimed about their lives.
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