The figures may indicate that there are more rape complaints than convictions. Or they may indicate that more people decide they were raped when they weren't. There are many reasons for this and for false allegations; genuine misunderstandings and mis-interpretation of words and situations; memories being affected by media coverage over the past decades (I mean, which lad who played and failed in football could fail to believe they had been raped by their coaches, these days?). Historical allegations are almost all exaggerated by media, memory, time, if not entirely fictional. There are dozens of far worse motives for making or inflating lies; money, desire for revenge or sympathy, child custody, insanity.
Prosecutors - until recently not allowed to disbelieve a complainant, no matter how insane they tend to be (think "Nick", think David Bryant's false accuser, think Jemma Beale, think Cliff's liars, think Gambo's accusers, think Edward Heath) - pretend it's stupid Jurors not accepting evidence like text messages saying "I'm about to make up lies about you" - we had a couple almost as bad as that - have found again and again that the overwhelming evidence is that many rapes never took place. So they have dropped some fake claims, being as kind as possible (even, sometimes, allowing false accusers "compensation" for being the victims of crimes that never happened).
Police - many of whom are decent and honest - and CPS lawyers (ditto) are terrified of refusing to bring mad claims to court, knowing they will be exposed as lies. "Victims" groups - many with the best intentions and with several genuine rapes mis-handled by victims - scream "conspiracy".
But the fact is - as I predicted 20 years ago - we are in the middle of a massive crime wave, some of which is unintended but the bulk of which is dreadful and intentional... the False Allegations Industry. Backed by media (good stories), lazy or frightened police and bad lawyers, there is an explosion of people, men and women, after money using a technically legal (unless they can be proved lies) loophole.
Time to close it.
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