Do you get this worked up about false accusations of other crimes, or just when women report rape?
People only seem to come out of the woodwork to pine about how commonly false rape accusations are ruining lives.
Do you get this worked up about false accusations of other crimes, or just when women report rape?
People only seem to come out of the woodwork to pine about how commonly false rape accusations are ruining lives.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
You only asked about rape/SA, so it was the only topic I responded to. According to FBI stats, the 8-10% is actually pretty typical for many other crimes too, but falsely accusing someone of most other crimes aside from something like murder is going to have consequences that are either shorter term or less severe (reputational consequences of being falsely accused of beating someone up are smaller than being falsely accused of rape, for example). Also, rape/SA often has the accusation itself as the primary or occasionally only evidence against the accused, and sometimes that is enough especially in older cases where any physical evidence would be long gone.