Law and Order? Bull-fucking-shit!
Yeah. Maybe this is my downfall. For anyone who knows me, they know I am a big "Law and Order" fan, I studied in Criminal Justice, and the whole field intrests me.
Last night, I spent 10 hours dealing with the whole system, and needless to say I was appalled with how everything was treated.
The Medics that showed up to the scene didnt know their faces from their ass, gave us no information of what hospital to go to, and a couple of them were cracking jokes out front. I was the one to call the Hospital and ask which one was the right one to go to.
The Hospital's front entrance was closed so we had to walk two blocks down a venue to find another entrance just to find a cardboarded wall saying it was closed for construction. We eventually slammed open an "Emergency Exit" door to get in.
The woman at the front desk was tired, bitchy, and refused to give us service and had us wait for 15 minutes till we had any contact with anyone *mind you this is the Emergency room* and no it wasnt busy.
Once my friend was walked to another room, I was placed in another room and was left alone for an hour and a half until anyone came in to give me an update.
A guy from Metro came in, and already type-casted my friend, and believed he know how it went down, where my friend wasnt a victim. He refused to give me any information as to what happened, just the fact that "theres a lot of holes in it" and "if she keeps up the way she's acting she is going to get herself killed." He then tells me about women who were found dead underneath an overpass a couple weeks back. What the fuck.
The detectives came in, talked to my friend in the other room, then bolted for the door. Fortunately, I managed to reach them, and not only were they giving me short answers, they obviously didnt give a rats ass about finding out what happened. One guy was literally shifting his weight and continually looking at his watch, while the other guy was just reluctant to tell me anything, saying "if she didnt want to make a statement, theres nothing we can do"
One again, it was more and more waiting. No one wanted to tell me anything. When I went up every hour to get an update it was as if I was making more work for them. I was livid.
Anyways, I needed to vent about this. Today has been a crap day and my faith in the Justice system has diminished.
Someone very close to me was raped, and this is how they treated her. No wonder women would rather forget about it then go to the Police.
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