Heather Marlowe
Co-founder of People for the Enforcement of Rape Laws. My play, The Haze, is responsible for exposing SFPD’s untested rape kits.
Five Ways the Media-Driven Rape Kit ‘Backlog’ Narrative Gets it Wrong
Across the country, police departments have chronically failed to investigate rape cases, leaving rape kits — the physical evidence collected from a rape victim’s body — untested. Unfortunately, a false narrative has taken hold around the concept of a rape kit backlog.