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Originally Posted by Makarov
Although a false allegation of sexual assault has terrible consequences for the accused (and also for police and justice system resources), the problem of false reporting absolutely pales in comparison to the problem of underreporting. As has already been noted in this thread, the rate of false reporting of sexual assault is consistent with false reporting of other crimes in Canada. However, the rate of underreporting of sexual assaults is far higher than the rate of underreporting of other crimes in Canada:
Source: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85f0033...008019-eng.pdf
Therefore, it seems likely that public campaigns attacking "false reporters" do more harm than good. |
If you're not making a false accusation, then the campaign attacking false reports does not apply to you.