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Kate Fall's avatar

That's a very interesting website. Take a look at reported rapes, and the high-water mark is 2018. That's very strange to me. Violent crimes were much higher in the 90s in every other category. There's no specific category for domestic violence, though. Looking at the crime clearance rate, violent crime has a 40% clearance rate but rape is counted separately (??!), and has a 30% clearance rate, I guess it not being as important as other violent crimes. In other words, crime has gone down quite a bit since the 90s as long as you factor out crimes against women.

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R Mercer's avatar

I think that th rape numbers are a lagging indicator of sorts--in that as the culture changed, rates of reporting increased.

Because of a lot of the cultural factors around sexual crime, especially rape, it would be my thought that it is both underreported (even now) and more difficult to investigate and clear than straightforward violent crime.

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knowltok's avatar

I think you may be seeing an increase in reporting in recent years.

I don't know if a straight line can be drawn between clearance and importance.

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