US Department of Justice Statistics

US Department of Justice Statistics

On 16 Jan 2009 at 16:52, Julianne McKinney wrote:

You received a bogus response from the National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC). Either that, or they don't bother reading the Department of Justice (NIJ) reports which they advertise on the NCVC site.

The NCVC posted a link to a DoJ Bureau of Justice
Special Report entitled "National Crime Victimization
Survey: Stalking Victimization in the United States,"
covering a 12-month period commencing in 2006.

See: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/svus.pdf

This is, in fact, the very report that received so
much publicity in the news recently ("an estimated 3.4 million stalking victims!").

If you look at the tables in this report, especially
at Table 5 on page 4 ("Victim-offender relationship in stalking and harassment") and at Appendix Table 3 on page 12 ("Number of stalking offenders perceived by
victim"), you'll find the following:

* An average of 10.6 percent of some 4.6 million
stalking and harassment victims don't know the
stalkers, since they're complete strangers.

* An average of 16.9 percent of the same 4.6 million
victims have no idea who is doing the stalking
(strangers or otherwise).

* 13.1 percent of 3.4 million victims claim to be
stalked and harassed by "3 or more" stalkers.

* 6.5 percent of 3.4 million victims can't say
precisely just how many people are stalking them.

That sounds like organized stalking to me.

The DoJ is also on top of the problems faced by
stalking and harassment victims when they try to report these crimes to the police. Take a look at the other tables in this report. The police dismiss the
complaints, treat the victims as crazy, don't make
reports, ...and all of the other crap which TIs have
reported in their dealings with the police.

You have a basis for asking the NCVC why they have
ignored this DoJ Special Report, Eleanor.

Julianne