One of Helen Smith’s readers started a fur ball over the issue of rape accusations in colleges, claiming that male students are fleeing colleges is “because they are less likely to get away with rape” there.
That’s uncorroborated rhetoric. The reader supports a legal standard of preponderance of the evidence. In criminal court, the standard is much higher: innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The Duke lacrosse case is an example, where the accuser got sympathetic press early on, Duke condemned the students, and then the case fell apart.
There’s also a teachable moment here.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics research, between 1994 and 2008 about 37% of all rapes were reported to police. When a crime’s reported, the police must clear it by arresting a suspect. Then the prosecutor decides if there’s enough evidence to proceed. Then they must prove beyond a reasonable doubt the crime was committed. Then the judge decides if they’re going to incarcerate.
Bottom line: For every 1,000 rapes committed, 63 prison sentences are handed out for all cases prosecuted in federal district courts, though the incarceration rate trended up during this time period. (State court systems averaged about 43 incarcerations per 1,000 rapes.)
For criminals, this means they have about a 6% chance of spending time in prison per incident, where they’ll spend about 4 years inside.
For women, this means train yourself in self-defense and firearms. The government doesn’t exist to protect you.
That’s not stated quite right. Those statistics are per 1000 alleged rapes. Just as rape has a low conviction rate, it also has a very high rate of false accusation. There’s no telling how many of those 1000 alleged rapes were real rapes, but it’s nowhere near 1000.
It’s actually per 1000 alleged estimated rapes, but let’s not get into that.
These were recorded by police as rapes, and counted as rapes committed in the FBI Uniform Crime Reports.
Just because the FBI lists them as rapes, that does not mean they were actual rapes. Only those cases which resulted in a conviction can be regarded as proven rapes – the rest are allegations. Various studies suggest that as many as half of reported “rapes” are actually false claims.
UCR Handbook page 19: “Reporting agencies must classify one offense for each female raped or upon whom an assault to rape or attempt to rape has been made.”
See link below.
How many are falsely accused, and convicted? Makes rape even safer for the rapists.
(How many men are gang raped? The number is supposed to be rather high. I accidently stumbled upon an online community of men who partook, they called themselves “soda poppers”, taken from how the loosened their victims’ sphincator muscles. It was a rather “different” experience, reading their posts. Their posts have since vanished under the noise at Google.)
The FBI Uniform Crime Handook records rapes as those committed or attempted by men, by force against women.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/additional-ucr-publications/ucr_handbook.pdf
This isn’t to say men don’t get raped, but you’ll have to take it up with the FBI. I can only report the data that’s presented
“I can only report the data that’s presented”
And then tendentiously, pedantically–passive aggressively–defend the worth of your assertions even though we know the data is horseshit.
Speaking of rape, it seems the writers and readers of PJM are victims of this heinous crime, intellectually speaking.
True to liberal form LeighB, the commenter in question here, appeared in the comment section, made unsubstantiated assertions, used stunningly bad logic and emotionally inspired assumptions, and then dissappeared. She did not stay to discuss the topic or defend her pronouncements of opinion, just hit and run. Her flight is evidence that she instinctively knows her position is indefensible. She does not have the courage of her convictions.
Kinda like a kid poking a hornet’s nest with a stick then running away, leaving the angry hornets to buzz around impotently.
Who can we report this intellectual rape to? Can we press charges? Can we have her before an administrative board of some kind?
Before anyone points it out, I already know that one cannot get away with poking a hornet’s nest with a stick. From as far away as you can shoot the nest with a .22, they will find you. Dont ask me how I know that.
One other relevant stat to remember: Over half of all rape complaints are false. Look it up for yourself. Even if you only include the cases where the complainant says, “I lied. I wasn’t raped.”, the number of false rape complaints tops 40%.