mr. berkowitz, sorry to move on, time is limited. what would your recommendation be about trying to get more sensitivity with the interviewers, the police officers? how do we do that in a practical sense given the limitations of police budgets? it is difficult to recruit people who have a best educational background of this matter? . >> many police departments have made tremendous progress on that and have implemented could try and improve the way they handled this. there is a lot of existing training. >> prof. dempsey, by now among the courses you teach "feminist legal theory." what is that? >> you should come to my class. we would be honored to have you. it is one main issue we discussed. >> do you meet on weekends? >> we will have a special session for you. it is about in -- interpreting legal law. it is also about law and the broader it might be evaluating existing law, considered normative arguments for improving those laws from a feminist point of view. >> what would your advice be to women's organizations to persuade police co

mr. berkowitz. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for holding this hearing. in the u.s. today, rape is a crime without consequence, access for the victim. the justice department opposing most recent -- reason estimate [inaudible] sorry. and since many reports do not lead to a an arrest and many arrests do not lead to a conviction or prison time, only one of 16 rapists will even sen -- spend just one day in prison. as long as rapists have a 94% chance of being -- of escaping punishment, they are not likely to be deterred. to accomplish a thing, it will require a sustained and focus effort to report rapes. in general, the reasons victims gave viewed in the ways society view the crime. they viewed -- they feared not been believed, they feared being interrogated their a -- about their own behavior or what they were wearing. in short, they feared they would be the one on trial. today, many victims have a greater understanding of the crime and reasons we commonly kishinev are along the lines of non wan

mr. berkowitz -- sorry to move on. >> sure. i understand. >> but time is limited. what would your recommendation be about trying to give more sensitivity with the interviewers, the police officers, how do we do that in a practical sense given the limitations of police budgets? difficult recruit people who have a vast educational background in this kind of matter. >> i think the training already exists. i think a lot of police departments have made tremendous progress on that and have implemented good training and improved the way they handle this. so there's a lot of existing training that international association of police and others offer. >> professor dempsey, i note among the courses you teach, feminist legal theory. what is a feminist legal theory? >> you should come to my class. we'd be honored to have you. it's one of the things -- >> do you meet on weekends? >> we'd have a special session if you wanted to attend. it's a question of basically evaluating existing law, legal doctrine. not only the positive law in the books as we say but also law in the broade