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ORIGINAL: JVoV

Can you stay consistent for two posts in a row? First it's


I notice the police department (who's job it is to investigate crimes) wasn't mentioned in there?

Your omission or hers?

then it's

I've "demanded" nothing.

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ORIGINAL: JVoV

https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system

The Majority of Sexual Assaults Are Not Reported to the Police

Only 344 out of every 1,000 sexual assaults are reported to police. That means about 2 out of 3 go unreported.1

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ORIGINAL: JVoV

The link I posted can provide you with more information about their statistics. Kinda why I posted it. Aside from the fact that it is a very worthy organization to contribute to.

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ORIGINAL: JVoV

https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system

The Majority of Sexual Assaults Are Not Reported to the Police

Only 344 out of every 1,000 sexual assaults are reported to police. That means about 2 out of 3 go unreported.1

Individuals of college-age2
Female Students: 20% report
Female Non-Students: 32% report
The elderly: 28% report3
Members of the military: 43% of female victims and 10% of male victims reported.4
Reasons Victims Choose Not to Report

Of the sexual violence crimes reported to police from 2005-2010, the survivor reporting gave the following reasons for doing so:5

28% to protect the household or victim from further crimes by the offender
25% to stop the incident or prevent recurrence or escalation
21% to improve police surveillance or they believed they had a duty to do so
17% to catch/punish/prevent offender from reoffending
6% gave a different answer, or declined to cite one reason
3% did so to get help or recover loss
Of the sexual violence crimes not reported to police from 2005-2010, the victim gave the following reasons for not reporting:5

20% feared retaliation
13% believed the police would not do anything to help
13% believed it was a personal matter
8% reported to a different official
8% believed it was not important enough to report
7% did not want to get the perpetrator in trouble
2% believed the police could not do anything to help
30% gave another reason, or did not cite one reason

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"How many unreported cases of sexual assault are there?" to which the "intelligencia" responds: "X%"

"How do you work out that percentage? Do you KNOW HOW MANY unreported cases there are or is your percentage a 'guestimate'?"

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

and I believe that they have inspired many and kudos to them, but again, it would have been nice if all these "open secrets" had been exposed (possibly by a group of actors and actresses?) long before now. In some cases, people decided to take money and shut up.

So what was more important at the moment they signed those NDAs? Their career/money or protecting others?

Michael[/color]

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ORIGINAL: tj444

I think the assumption is that the NDA was signed after the rape but this may not be the case at all.. the rapist pig & his friends used intimidation to keep victims quiet.. I think they falsely told some or all of the women that their employment contract included a NDA clause... but it seems (from one of the articles I read) that some or probably all of them never got a copy of that, which would explain why McGowan thought she had signed a NDA and didnt go public about it for all those years... she only found out last summer that she hadnt signed one and so she was able to become very vocal about it.. which is why the rapist pigs friends then tried to bribe her with a $1 million offer to not name him....

Remember that these women that were raped by him are very young, inexperienced and it is pretty easy to intimidate them, especially when the assaulter holds their future career in his hands... its a David and Goliath situation, where the person that was raped has no power and the big rich studio head rapist pig has all of it.. he has done for 3 decades or so, he knows what will work to keep his victims quiet & get other people to help him as well.. which is why McGowan's manager (who sold her out) got a plum job with a company the rapist pig ran.. When you are young and your manager, lawyers and advisors (people you trust) are telling you there is nothing you can do and to forget about it, etc etc.. the women dont stand a chance against that.. But at least now he has been outed and he is being investigated by the cops in LA, NY & even in the UK.. he belongs in jail..

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ORIGINAL: LadyPact

In for a penny. In for a pound.

Just going to give my thoughts on what we're really talking about when we start discussing things such as terms that we're calling reported, unreported, and estimates.

The term "reported" has to do with firm numbers that are reported to law enforcement agencies. We're talking hard core data, here. In any given year, these are the people who file formal reports, regardless of whether the cases are pursued with formal charges or not.

The term "unreported" can be those cases that aren't pursued with legal agencies, but where people seek help through other outlets, such as Rainne. This can also include categories of people who didn't reach out for help, but are included in statistical surveys that have been conducted by certain organizations.

Because we know that the numbers that we have between "reported" and "unreported", we also must consider the estimate. Even in a large study sample, (100,000 or more) there will be variance. There will be people who are just trying to forget the whole thing, people who think that nobody will believe them, people who won't 'admit' during a random survey because admitting it makes it more 'real' for them, people who won't say anything because they are at fault, and a plethora of other reasons.

There's not a hard core equation, here.