A case on point...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/an-epidemic-of-disbelief/592807/
As [Assistant Prosecutor] Spada wandered through the warehouse, he made another discovery, one that would help uncover a decades-long scandal, not just in Detroit but across the country. He noticed rows of steel shelving lined with white cardboard boxes, 10 inches tall and a foot wide, stacked six feet high. What are those? he asked a Detroit police officer who was accompanying him. Rape kits, the officer said.
"I’m assuming they’ve been tested?” Spada said.
“Oh, they’ve all been tested.”
Spada pulled out a box and peered inside. The containers were still sealed, indicating that the evidence had never been sent to a lab. He opened four more boxes: the same.
“I tried to do a quick calculation,” he later told me. “I came up with approximately 10,000.”
Spada’s estimate was conservative. Eventually 11,341 untested rape kits were found, some dating back more than 30 years—each one a hermetically sealed testament to the most terrifying minutes of a woman’s life, each one holding evidence that had been swabbed or plucked from the most private parts of her body. And in all likelihood, some microscopic part of her assailant—his DNA, his identity—sat in that kit as well.
Or kits.
The serial rapist they eventually caught and prosecuted, Eric Eugene Wilkes, raped his first victim in December 2000, and his eleventh victim in January 2012. The police in Detroit didn't take any of the previous 10 seriously enough to bother getting their rape kits tested. That is what happens when you adopt a position of not believing the rape victim. The eleventh victim recognised Wilkes, and he was arrested shortly afterwards. Had that not happened, there would likely have been a 13th victim, and a 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th....
No person who claimed or complained of being a victim of a theft or burglary was ever offhandedly dismissed in the way the rape victims were dismissed.
