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Prosecutor is not one of them.

You don’t get to sit at the highest table of law enforcement in the country and treat sexual assault survivors like a scheduling inconvenience. You don’t get to call accountability “theatrics” and expect trauma not to hear contempt.

Empathy is not softness.
It is not partisanship.
It is not weakness.

Empathy is operational clarity.

When you review testimony, evidence, images, case files — you are not reading fiction. You are reading someone’s nervous system translated into paperwork.

If you cannot hold that weight with seriousness, you are in the wrong chair.

Justice requires neutrality.
Leadership requires backbone.
But prosecution — especially of sexual violence — requires something more.

It requires the ability to look into the eyes of a survivor and understand that what they endured did not end when the event did.

It lives in their sleep.
It lives in their body.
It lives in their startle reflex.
It lives in their relationships.

Empathy is not political.

It is a minimum qualification.

And when empathy disappears from leadership, survivors don’t just lose faith.

They lose safety.

SURVIVORS ARE NOT OPTICS. ▌