
Originally Posted by
denuseri
The DOJ has admitted that with new DNA testing, the incidence of false rape acusations may be as high as 1 in 4
Nearly 7.8 million women have been raped by an intimate partner at some point in their lives.
Sexual assault or forced sex occurs in approximately 40-45% of battering relationships.
1 in 12 women have been stalked in their lifetime.
81% of women stalked by a current or former intimate partner are also physically assaulted by that partner; 31% are also sexually assaulted by that partner.
Approximately 20% of the 1.5 million people who experience intimate partner violence annually obtain civil protection orders.
Approximately one-half of the orders obtained by women against intimate partners who physically assaulted them were violated.
More than two-thirds of the restraining orders against intimate partners who raped or stalked the victim were violated.
Department of Justice statistics revealed that women who resisted their attackers with the use of a firearm were twice as likely to survive a violent encounter unscathed as those who followed proactive "passive defensive means" (IE blowing a whistle, screaming for help, running away etc) and 4 times as likely to survive unscathed as those resisting through other means (IE martial arts, pepper spray, tasers etc).