torn80 wrote:A friend of mine who works in the district attorney's office in a city in Texas tells me that the false accusation rate is way up as a result of people being out of work due to this ongoing pandemic. Apparently during desperate times, people do desperate things. He tells me that most of the cases get weeded out by police detectives who catch inconsistencies in hastily made up stories, but others make up more convincing stories. However, those often fall through as a result of some unforeseen detail which completely derails the scheme planned out by the false accuser. He says that he hopes that general skepticism doesn't result in excessive doubt which might mean those telling the truth get turned away, but it's the same old story of better ten people get away with a crime than for one person to be punished for something he didn't do.
Several of my friends are in law enforcement in various states and they can confirm that the number of false accusations are way up. They also attribute this to an increase in the number of people who are out of work. The false accusers see a lawsuit based on a false accusation of a made up event from the past as easy money. The news media has shared so many stories of this nature with huge monetary settlements that many people have gotten the impression that it would be easy to make up a story of past abuse and make a small fortune as the result of a false accusation. Several people have wound up being incarcerated as a result of this kind of scheme and so it may not be as easy as it sounds.... assuming that the law enforcement people dealing with the situation are competent.