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How a visionary victims’ advocate took developed the first rape kits

In the early 1970s, rape had reached epidemic proportions in Chicago, with an estimated 16,000 people were sexually assaulted in the metropolitan area. But less than a tenth of the cases were ever reported to the police and few of the perpetrators were ever apprehended.  Moreover, the Chicago Police Department’s training manual had a dim…