When the Rapist Doesn’t See It as Rape

So one out of 16.67 people are falsely accused. This is still high.

High compared to what? To the false accusation rate for other crimes in that same college population? Other crimes in general? False accusation rates for all crimes are difficult to find and very uncertain. What is the false accusation rate for theft? Physical assault/battery? Reports of crimes that could feed civil suits or insurance fraud?

This context is key, and it's really hard to find.

But regardless of that, I said UPTO 10% - it seems you cherry picked it out of my quote.

If someone says 5.9%, or maybe between 2% and 10%, and you only say "up to 10%," that's very misleading.

Is this an argument for or against an omnipresent rape culture where all men are an offender waiting to happen? I can't tell.

Neither. I'm agreeing with you that people are not rapists waiting to happen and simultaneously arguing for better education.

Re-victimizing how, by asking questions and investigating instead of just taking someones accusations as gospel? That's how all crimes are treated.

No, it's really not.

In many western jurisdictions, police believe that most victims are lying about rape. Victims are pressured to drop reports, outright called liars, and have details that have nothing to do with whether a rape occurred, like whether they were sexually active prior to the rape or what they were wearing, thrown in their faces. PDF warning

Here's a transcript of one victim's interview with the police in the UK. While policy changes were later ordered, it recently came out that over many years of abuse of minors and young women elsewhere in the county, police took a very similar view, branding victims troublemakers and sex workers and refusing to take reports or pressuring them out of them.

My own experience going with a friend who tried to report a rape in college is in line with this. It's frequently not a matter of investigating--it's a matter of ending the investigation before it starts.

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