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> “3-5% of rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults- and less than 1% of property crimes- lead to jail time.”

Gotta be careful with stats like that. The causes are different.

The low rate of property crime clearance is indeed very sad and reflective of the priorities of the police, I think, perhaps also that robbers got better at robbing over time. I recall my parents house was broken into (in the UK) once when I was a kid and the police were useless. They don't usually have much to go on unless they find where the goods are sold.

The low rate of rape clearance is mostly related to the fact that the rate of false accusations and rescinded allegations is so high. I looked into this once some years ago and the average cop will estimate in anonymous interviews that ~50% of all allegations are false. Many of these never make it to court because the accuser admits it before it gets that far. Additionally, "stranger rape" is quite rare. It's far more common that the two people know each other and may well have been in a consensual relationship. So it's trying to litigate what happened between closed doors to the level of "beyond all reasonable doubt", which is inherently difficult for the legal system to handle.

Unfortunately feminist politicians, activists and civil servants usually don't care about any of that. In their minds women never lie, ever, so the rape jail rate should be 100%. These people have a nasty habit of making their own delusional beliefs come true by changing the law any time men find ways to defend themselves against false accusations, for example, in the UK recently there was a run of false accusations that were revealed via phone evidence. The response of the political class was not "wow, men have a serious problem with false rape accusations against them, we'd better fix that", it was, "let's change the law so phone evidence isn't admissible". It's this sort of thing that reveals the lie of feminism - it's a woman's world actually. Women are willing to organize to take control of men in ways modern men would never even dream of doing in return.

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