False Accusations Gone Wild

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Re: False Accusations Gone Wild

Postby pcslim » Thu Oct 15, 2020 6:13 am

torn80 wrote:A friend of mine who works in the district attorney's office in a city in Texas tells me that the false accusation rate is way up as a result of people being out of work due to this ongoing pandemic. Apparently during desperate times, people do desperate things. He tells me that most of the cases get weeded out by police detectives who catch inconsistencies in hastily made up stories, but others make up more convincing stories. However, those often fall through as a result of some unforeseen detail which completely derails the scheme planned out by the false accuser. He says that he hopes that general skepticism doesn't result in excessive doubt which might mean those telling the truth get turned away, but it's the same old story of better ten people get away with a crime than for one person to be punished for something he didn't do.

Several of my friends are in law enforcement in various states and they can confirm that the number of false accusations are way up. They also attribute this to an increase in the number of people who are out of work. The false accusers see a lawsuit based on a false accusation of a made up event from the past as easy money. The news media has shared so many stories of this nature with huge monetary settlements that many people have gotten the impression that it would be easy to make up a story of past abuse and make a small fortune as the result of a false accusation. Several people have wound up being incarcerated as a result of this kind of scheme and so it may not be as easy as it sounds.... assuming that the law enforcement people dealing with the situation are competent.
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Re: False Accusations Gone Wild

Postby desertrat » Tue Oct 27, 2020 6:47 am

Desperate people do desperate things and one of the easiest things in the world to do is make a false accusation. Most people are preconditioned to believe false accusations and law enforcement always takes them seriously and on top of that there are lawyers eager for the business. It's not at all surprising that the false accusation rate is up during this COVID situation and hopefully the skepticism of all who hear such accusation is also increased.
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Re: False Accusations Gone Wild

Postby shadylady » Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:22 am

Blogger Who Falsely Accused Army Colonel Of Rape Learns Her Fate
Sometimes justice prevails. Allowing delayed accusations is a bad idea. It makes it easier to get away with false accusations. Most false accusers are never held accountable. This is a rare exception.
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Re: False Accusations Gone Wild

Postby ergot » Sat Dec 26, 2020 6:51 pm

Cancel culture of censorship? | Netflix in US pulls Johnny Depp films
Unsubstantiated claims in a he-said-she-said case.... TOTAL BULLSHIT! No conviction and now Depp is fighting back and turning tables on the woke mob!
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Re: False Accusations Gone Wild

Postby desertrat » Wed Feb 03, 2021 12:06 pm

You Can't Mock AOC Anymore - She Claims She Is Sexual Assault Survivor
Nothing AOC says is true.
She's so full of :poop: that it's not even funny!
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Re: False Accusations Gone Wild

Postby dzrtdwg » Sun Oct 24, 2021 12:08 pm

Only 2% Of Rape Accusations Are False???
When people who are not good at math interpret statistics of any kind, they're more likely than not going to misrepresent the facts as a result of their own stupidity!
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Re: False Accusations Gone Wild

Postby desertrat » Sat Dec 18, 2021 7:07 am

dzrtdwg: That's a good analysis of the facts and it shows how statistics can be twisted around by people with an agenda. What we know is that at least ten percent of rape accusations are true, but as for the other ninety percent, they might all be false. We know that probably at least ten percent are definitely false, but the other eighty percent are impossible to prove as true. That's a lot of uncertainty and most people don't like uncertainty, but that's the nature of reality as I see it.
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Re: False Accusations Gone Wild

Postby MojaveMike » Thu Mar 24, 2022 5:33 am

desertrat: That's right that's a lot of uncertainty! If we only know with a reasonable level of certainty that 10% are true and 10% are false, then the mass majority of accusations could be true or false. That's a huge amount of uncertainty. In a fair legal system the benefit of the doubt goes to the accused. With that much room for doubt though, it's difficult to justify some of the prosecutions which wind up in the news.
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Re: False Accusations Gone Wild

Postby dilbert » Sat Apr 29, 2023 5:49 am

POSSIBLY WELL OVER 60% OF RAPE ACCUSATIONS ARE FALSE!
dzrtdwg wrote:Only 2% Of Rape Accusations Are False???
When people who are not good at math interpret statistics of any kind, they're more likely than not going to misrepresent the facts as a result of their own stupidity!

.... but probably it's about 33% or somewhere around that and that's excluding accusations not reported to the police. If we add in those it's probably somewhere around 80%!
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Re: False Accusations Gone Wild

Postby drdesert » Sun Jul 02, 2023 6:21 am

desertrat wrote:dzrtdwg: That's a good analysis of the facts and it shows how statistics can be twisted around by people with an agenda. What we know is that at least ten percent of rape accusations are true, but as for the other ninety percent, they might all be false. We know that probably at least ten percent are definitely false, but the other eighty percent are impossible to prove as true. That's a lot of uncertainty and most people don't like uncertainty, but that's the nature of reality as I see it.

Unless an assault is reported in a timely manner and unless there is physical evidence that it actually occurred, I'd be rather skeptical. I would not be even slightly surprised if 80% of accusations are false, but it's probably somewhere between 40% and 60%.
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