Whether or not Ketamine is a date rape drug is irrelevant to the other content of the article. Even if Ketamine were widely known to be such, I can't see any reason for mentioning it other than to...
Whether or not Ketamine is a date rape drug is irrelevant to the other content of the article. Even if Ketamine were widely known to be such, I can't see any reason for mentioning it other than to add a bit of sensationalism. Nowhere does the article claim that the police are date raping these victims. It's a shame, this is a serious and important subject matter. They did a decent job of reporting it, but had to undermine themselves by slipping in that little sensationalistic taste. This type of reporting makes more room for the counter-arguments that always come from the police-affiliated folks in discussions about abuse by the police. When they start up the refrain of "you aren't there, you don't have all the information..." well, that argument works a bit better when you threw in non-sequiturs about horrible things like date rape. You're reporting on real abuse but mixing it in with an unfair smear.
Whether or not Ketamine is a date rape drug is irrelevant to the other content of the article. Even if Ketamine were widely known to be such, I can't see any reason for mentioning it other than to add a bit of sensationalism. Nowhere does the article claim that the police are date raping these victims. It's a shame, this is a serious and important subject matter. They did a decent job of reporting it, but had to undermine themselves by slipping in that little sensationalistic taste. This type of reporting makes more room for the counter-arguments that always come from the police-affiliated folks in discussions about abuse by the police. When they start up the refrain of "you aren't there, you don't have all the information..." well, that argument works a bit better when you threw in non-sequiturs about horrible things like date rape. You're reporting on real abuse but mixing it in with an unfair smear.