wdolson
Well-Known Member
I suggest you look at this report:
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv16.pdf
Page 9 has statistics on victims broken down by various demographics including gender. Men are more likely to be victims of violent crime (21.4/1000 vs 20.8/1000), but women are more often victims of serious violent crime (6.5 vs 7.5/1000). Serious violent crime involves rape/sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault.
I don't have statistics for rape victims specifically, but I believe while male rape is not unknown, it's far more common that the victim is female.
That said, my partner does domestic violence victims counseling here in Clark County (as well as other places around WA). In her experience, most of the perpetrators were victims as children. A large number were beaten by their mothers in single parent households. Law enforcement is also unbalanced in how it arrests people. Unless a guy has some very visible wounds like a knife stuck in him, they rarely arrest women, while men can get popped for kicking a door or throwing a cell phone. I know of one guy who got arrested when his wife tried to blind him with a stiletto heel and she got a small bruise on her wrist when he wrestled the shoe away from her.
Oregon state law said the cops have to arrest the man in the conflict. Which leaves cops with unclear instructions on what to do with homosexual couples in a DV situation. (The law may have been recently amended, but that was the case a couple of years ago.)
In domestic violence, men are far less willing to report. And when they do, they are much less likely to be believed. That is a serious problem. However in DV situations when a woman attacks a man, she is less likely to cause injury than the other way around. Especially when unarmed.
With stranger crime, like we're talking about here, perps look for an easy target. That means someone who looks weaker than they are, and someone who is not paying attention to their surroundings so they can close in without being detected. Stranger crime is also rare. If people are looking for money, not all that many people carry cash and if you want to use stolen credit cards, there are safer ways to do it than steal someone's wallet.
Sexual assault by a stranger is also very rare. A very high percentage of rape victims know their attacker. Just like children being kidnapped by strangers is very rare. Both are rare enough it usually makes the news, sometimes nationally. Only rare events make the news. Common bad things that befall people rarely make the news.
That probably isn't going to happen because of the high losses with wireless charging. Also those concerned about EMF around chargers will be even more concerned about wireless chargers' EMF. Tesla cars would need extra equipment to support these chargers too. The legacy cars would be stuck with the old tech anyway. The robotic arm at superchargers is much more likely. That is built on top of existing tech and has the same loss levels as the existing tech.
