Sentence examples for believe victims from inspiring English sources

We have to believe victims, even if we are hurt and ashamed by what they say.

"Predatory violence increases because offenders believe victims and witnesses will not contact the police," Rosenfeld said.

This is a more neutral way to begin than saying we should believe victims, and better describes our impartial mindset.

Bureaucrats and doctors have tended to be more skeptical, saying they believe victims have their eye on more compensation.

Deborah Glass, the deputy chairwoman of the IPCC, said: "The approach of failing to believe victims in the first instance was wholly inappropriate.

There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.

Roy Brumfield, shot eight times in New Orleans on two separate occasions, didn't believe victim compensation was available in his city.

She told BBC Radio 4's World at One: "It's about believing victims and taking it forward.

I don't believe that there would have been 35 women sitting in those chairs if we were a society that believes victims.

The policy of believing victims from the outset, unless evidence undermines their claims, was introduced after police blundered in a series of cases of serious sexual assault.

The mine employs about 1,800 people, 13 of whom are among the believed victims, and is responsible for about 10% of Brazil's iron ore exports.