If you outlaw something and then fail to enforce the law, it isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
This strikes me as...not obvious. In my country most rapes are not reported, let alone prosecuted, but that doesn’t lead me to conclude that the law against rape “isn’t worth the paper it’s written on”.
The page at the far end of satt’s link has, in addition to its presentation of the data, extensive information about the underlying numbers and where they all come from.
This strikes me as...not obvious. In my country most rapes are not reported, let alone prosecuted, but that doesn’t lead me to conclude that the law against rape “isn’t worth the paper it’s written on”.
What is the source of that data? I ask because there is a lot of misleading and outright false data on rape rates floating about.
The page at the far end of satt’s link has, in addition to its presentation of the data, extensive information about the underlying numbers and where they all come from.