#rape

false rape claims and the like are soooo nonexistent that it baffles me how much people are willing to buy that they are real try

sure we don’t have a fuckin finite number but

• "In the period of the review, there were 5,651 prosecutions for rape and 111,891 for domestic violence. During the same period there were 35 prosecutions for making false allegations of rape, 6 for making false allegation of domestic violence and 3 for making false allegations of both rape and domestic violence." source
• "Of the 136 cases of sexual assault reported over the 10-year period, 8 (5.9%) are coded as false allegations. These results, taken in the context of an examination of previous research, indicate that the prevalence of false allegations is between 2% and 10%." source
• "Despite reforms intended to increase the number of rape investigations that proceed to prosecution, the study found that suspects were charged in only 15 percent of the 850 reported rapes. … Only a small percentage of cases (2.1 percent) were designated by police as false." source

and just because a rape accusation is considered ‘false’ or ‘unfounded’ doesn’t mean it wasn’t as the police are regularly misogynistic pieces of shit

• "This statistic is almost meaningless, as many of the jurisdictions from which the FBI collects data on crime use different definitions of, or criteria for, "unfounded." That is, a report of rape might be classified as unfounded (rather than as forcible rape) if the alleged victim did not try to fight off the suspect, if the alleged perpetrator did not use physical force or a weapon of some sort, if the alleged victim did not sustain any physical injuries, or if the alleged victim and the accused had a prior sexual relationship. Similarly, a report might be deemed unfounded if there is no physical evidence or too many inconsistencies between the accuser’s statement and what evidence does exist." source

furthermore

• if you think false rape claims are really a thing,
• you’re a piece of trash