Rape is a horrible, inhumane crime that can damage a victim deeply. Furthermore, a recent poll highlights the underreporting of sexual assault. In general, there are four recurring reasons for this: victims don’t want to draw attention to themselves or their assaulters, are worried they won’t be believed, don’t know who to go to, or don’t know if the incident would constitute as rape.
The site Callisto was created to address this issue. Once an assault report is written, it offers three options: to save the report, to sent it to authorities, or to send it to authorities only if someone else has also filed a report on the same person. This third option is especially interesting because even if the person assaulted has the concerns described earlier, they can still report the crime. Each person reports incidents independently, decreasing the likelihood of them being accused of writing “copycat” reports.
The game theory that the title suggests appears to have a minimal role in this site; it sounds like it’s simply making use of statistics. Nonetheless, Callisto is an excellent example of someone observing an issue, examining polls, identifying recurring problems and then coming up with one possible solution.
All in all, this appears to be a clever idea, and it will be put on a trial at the University of San Francisco as well as Pomona College this year. Hopefully, this site will encourage anyone subject to assault to speak out.
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