A campus crime report from the University of Miami has found that 1-in-5 reported rapes are “unfounded,” a finding similar to that of a recent Harvard University report.
Colleges across the country are releasing campus crime statistics, and it turns out campus sexual assault might not be as rampant as recent “studies” claim. Even worse for advocates of draconian sexual assault policies that eviscerate due process is the notion that a good chunk of the accusations are false.
“Forcible sex offenses on campus went up from four in 2013 to five in 2014, with one case being reported as ‘unfounded,'” reported the Miami Hurricane student newspaper. “Four of the five cases were reported in student residencies, where the one ‘unfounded’ case occurred.”
One might notice that literally 1-in-5 reports were “unfounded,” meaning there was no basis for the report, as there were only 5 reported rapes in 2014. That’s far fewer than at Harvard, which saw 33 reported rapes.
Again, if this statistic is repeated anywhere in the media, proper caveats will be attached, something lacking from reports of studies purporting to show that 1-in-5 women are sexually assaulted in college.
The first caveat is that the 1-in-5 false rape report came from the university’s Coral Gables campus, which is the main university campus. There were no reports of forcible rape at the university’s Rosentiel School campus, but there were three reports (none of which were determined to be unfounded) at the Miller School of Medicine. Adding in the Miller School numbers (even though it’s not the main campus) would lower the percentage of unfounded reports.
The other caveat is that, as with Harvard, this is just one school. Other schools might have higher or lower rates of false or unfounded reports.
Another thing we don’t know from these statistics is any details about the reports. We’ve seen before that some accusations are wrong, stemming from regretted drunken hook-ups, but wouldn’t fall into the “unfounded” category because at the very least, some form of sex took place. And in some of those instances, the universities were under pressure to find students responsible, even if the evidence didn’t support the finding.
There has so far been radio silence from the mainstream media when it comes to the inconvenient statistics being revealed in these campus reports. Reports of sexual assault are up (slightly), but those numbers don’t coincide with the hysterical claims that 1-in-5 women are being sexually assaulted while in college.
At Harvard, reports amounted to just 0.15 percent of the student population claiming to experience a rape, and of that, a quarter of the reports were false or unfounded. At Miami, with just 5 reports, only 0.03 percent of students experienced a rape and reported it. And again, a fifth of them were unfounded.
In contrast, there were 133 drug law violations and 277 liquor law violations at Miami in 2014, a steep drop from 2013, but still far, far higher than reports of sexual assault. Yet those issues don’t receive anywhere near as much attention, perhaps because they don’t include the “war on women” narrative those in the media prefer to report.
