OurGloriousLeader said:
Here's a link to the Kanin study. Kanin chose to study a particular mid-western town because the police force had an extremely stringent policy on the investigations of rapes.
http://sf-criminaldefense.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/KaninFalseRapeAllegations.pdf
"This investigation is essentially a case study of one police agency in a small metropolitan area (population = 70,000) in the Midwestern United States. This city was targeted for study because it offered an almost model laboratory for studying false rape allegations. First, its police agency is not inundated with serious felony cases and, therefore, has the freedom and the motivation to record and thoroughly pursue all rape complaints. In fact, agency policy forbids police officers to use their discretion in deciding whether to officially acknowledge a rape complaint, regardless how suspect that complaint may be. Second, the declaration of a false allegation follows a highly institutionalized procedure. The investigation of all rape complaints always involves a serious offer to polygraph the complainants and the suspects. Additionally, for a declaration of false charge to be made, the complainant must admit that no rape had occurred. She is the sole agent who can say that the rape charge is false. The police department will not declare a rape charge as false when the complainant, for whatever reason, fails to pursue the charge or cooperate on the case, regardless how much doubt the police may have regarding the validity of the charge. In short, these cases are declared false only because the complainant admitted they are false. Furthermore, only one person is then empowered to enter into the records a formal declaration that the charge is false, the officer in charge of records. Last, it should be noted that this department does not confuse reported rape attempts with completed rapes. Thus, the rape complainants referred to in this paper are for completed forcible rapes only. The foregoing leaves us with a certain confidence that cases declared false by this police agency are indeed a reasonable - if not a minimal - reflection of false rape allegations made to this agency, especially when one considers that a finding of false allegation is totally dependent upon the recantation of the rape charge."
It's pretty wild when people say the study is uncritical or sloppy. If you read the article, the research is bloody chapter and verse. It's honestly some of the most serious research into rape that's ever been done.
A story from a cop friend of mine:
An 19-year-old woman claims that she has been raped by a stranger. When asked for details, she says that she met the man in a parking lot and he offered money in exchange for sex. She agreed. They went to her apartment and started having sex, continuing for a while, until she decided that she'd made a mistake. She asked him to stop and he did. He apologized for being a bother and paid her anyway, then left.
His response to me after this story is "I just wanted to ask her: DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE FUCK RAPE *IS*? You consensually fucked him for money, asked him to stop before he even got off, then he did stop and PAID YOU ANYWAY! THE FUCK? This kind of bullshit is literally half the fucking rape complaints I get!"
That cop, by the way, is a rape survivor himself (both of date rape and child molestation) and works in one of the most progressive police forces in the country. I wish I were making this shit up.
Let me finish up with one of the gems from the Kanin study which should illustrate moral fiber of false rape complainants:
"A 37-year-old woman reported having been raped 'by some ******.' She gave
conflicting reports of the incident on two occasions and, when confronted with
these, she admitted that the entire story was a fabrication. She feared her boyfriend
had given her 'some sexual disease,' and she wanted to be sent to the hospital to
'get checked out.' She wanted a respectable reason, i.e., as an innocent victim of
rape, to explain the acquisition of her infection."
