Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20160128170019/@comment-3581997-20160412231056

No. A few warning signs;

1. There is no one credited as being the writer of the article, that is a glowing neon sign for "can't fact check"

2. If 97% are unreported, then where is that percentage coming from?

3. If you are dealing with backlog, you're naturally going to get a large number. It's like saying 97% of my room is garbage because I havent cleaned it in  five years, logic fail.

This is a sensationalism, the internet if full of them, which is why you always look for authors of articles and their data method.

That said though, the percentage is considerably higher than any optimistic view would allow. New York, New Jersey, Washington and Texas are all on record for being particularly ruthless about how they handle rapists and those are just the famous ones. Juries and judges tend not to give any leeway to said cases, in fact a great deal of police corruption in those areas comes from the amount of power they are given in the face of certain crimes, rape being up at the top of said list. So I find it extremely unlikely that 97% is even close to what could happen add to that the data can't be backed up and isn't credited except under the site name and...yeah.

In 2003 I read a similar article, credited and backed up from a medical examiner for the NYPD, she credited the numbers as being in the 40% mark (which is still depressingly high) but with harsher and harsher laws and juries being more and more hard on crime the notion that that percentage would more than double in a decade and a half is insane.