by torn80 » Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:46 pm
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.