Not Enough Words To Say What This Conveys

I'm a word person - I think in words, not pictures. Very few pictures actually are worth more than a few dozen words, much less the thousand usually attributed to them. But today, via Maddowblog, I saw a picture which says more than the millions of words written on the subject.

 

Dylan Matthews at Wonkblog:

 

 

The above graphic, passed along by the Huffington Post‘s Laura Bassett, was put together by the Enliven Project using data from Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey and FBI reports. It drives home extremely well the fact that false rape accusations are exceedingly rare, despite what media reports might suggest. Almost as rare are cases when rapists actually go to jail.