Rotherham as written is knowledge plus non-use: witnesses would not testify, cases would collapse, institutions feared being called racist. That is a refusal to fire existing investigation and prosecution, not a missing stage of the delivery stack. Using it as the lead specimen of "enforcement could not absorb the load" recodes political non-use as capacity shortfall, and it is not a specimen of declarations accumulating faster than the stack is built.
alternative_mechanism · specimen_classification, load_versus_refusal