Quote:which is 530,000 reports of rape per year. There are 15,000 rape convictions annually.
The difference between the two numbers does not mean that the original claims were lies. There are plenty of reasons why a district attorney might fail to get an indictment and then a conviction; lack of evidence or unreliability of a witness being two of the most obvious.
Besides, we also don't have any clue from those numbers how many cases were plea-bargained down to a lesser charge.
In short, drawing conclusions from this kind of data is shaky.
