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Old 07-30-2003, 01:34 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally posted by RBFC
There are over 150,000,000 men in the U.S. This (and others may check my math) means that 0.048% of men are "known-man" attackers. That comes down to mean that approximately 1 in 2000 men commit this crime. The true number may be even less, since some men are multiple/repeat offenders.
I don't know the statistics. There might be some way to figure in for other crimes (sexual harrassment, menacing, etc.) as well as under-reporting. But even if the number were a factor of 10 higher that would leave 199 innocent men for every man that commits an offense. That's still quite a few people that stand unjustly accused by extremists of this kind.

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