Philadelphia policy: 'almost never' arrest false rape accusers

lazernerd · 2013-07-03T12:42:39+00:00

If there is clear evidence that a woman was lying about rape then she should be charged. Not doing so only encourages more false rape claims; it certainly doesn't discourage actual rape victims from coming forward.

In the he said/she said cases with no evidence no one should be charged. The problem here is that male victims of false accusations often have their lives ruined without a guilty verdict.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2013-07-03T12:33:46+00:00

We have a rape culture in this country because conviction rates for rape are very low (they aren't really, but that's the claim. In reality it's about 50/50).

Here we have a man in position of power who is openly stating the assumed policy of most law enforcement offices in the country to not enforce laws against false accusations of rape. Would this make it a false-rape culture?

2013-07-03T15:37:11+00:00

It's important to note that in most states, a false report is a crime against the police, not the person who was accused. The crime is a misdemeanor of basically wasting resources. The police likely hood of charging someone who made a false report is based largely on how much they feel they were inconvenienced, not on how much the actual victim was inconvenienced.

2013-07-03T16:25:01+00:00

This, in and of itself, is reason enough to hate feminism and all feminists.

They want the entire world to become a police state to cater to their overblown fears, but they don't even want to arrest obvious criminals to mitigate against our own worries. They are extremely selfish people who hate men, consciously or not.

HappyGerbil88 · 2013-07-03T20:50:58+00:00

"How often does a sexual assault victim lie about it? Everyone wants to quantify that – the best thing to say is the rate is very low," he said.

When pressed he estimated a mere 6%.

Wow. So, he acknowledges that he is going to low-ball it in order to be PC, and he still estimates 6%, 2-3x the numbers Feminists put forward.

2013-07-04T02:57:15+00:00

I would also say most false rape accusers are never documented by police thus skewing statistics.

MartialWay · 2013-07-04T16:25:11+00:00

Captain John Darby, the head of Philadelphia's special victims unit charged with investigating rape, "almost never" arrests them "because it stops other victims coming forward . . . ."

Uhmm...you can't say "other victims" if the first group wasn't actually a victim. Make him say it straight - "I believe arresting scammers will prevent legitimate victims from coming forward.

JacquesFutrelle · 2013-07-03T12:35:22+00:00

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Title	Philadelphia policy: 'almost never' arrest false rape accusers
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Date	July 3, 2013 12:14 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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