Post by suburbsirvine2 on May 5, 2017 23:48:15 GMT
Quite often those stats are derived from anonymous questionnaires, sometimes from colleges or organizations serving women in various capacities. Although somewhat sensationalized, the Bill Cosby trial and the current Fox news debacle reflect another aspect of these statistics: workplace sexual assaults of women that go unreported for fear of reprisal, including the inability to get or keep a job within the victim's training and experience. Awful choice to have to make: risk losing your promotions or even your livelihood to report a sexual predator.
If not, one becomes almost complicit if an unreported perpetrator goes on to commit further crimes.
My point is that it doesn't serve our purposes here or society at large to conflate the sort of crimes committed by EAR with sexual harassment in the newsroom. 66% of rapes going unreported has no place in the discussion. There has to be a distinction made in classification.
It is very misleading to argue that Sacramento LE investigated 300 rapes in 1975 and 66% went unreported in the context of a discussion about violent strong arm or B&E type home invasion rapes. There were not 900 rapes of the variety EAR committed. If we are including the lesser(I know this is a sensitive issue and I am NOT trivializing rape of any kind) offenses of coercion and harassment in the total referenced above of 300 rapes, how many of those were really comparable to the crimes committed by EAR?
We are working with flawed statistics and a case by case review would be necessary to establish relevant numbers. This would be a worthwhile pursuit. Research of this nature may have already been done but there may be a compelling clue or two hidden in that mountain of seemingly unrelated information.