[ceejayoz]

> Do you know that more women are raped every year in UK & US than in India?

Bullshit. Your link states "does not include cases of rape which go unreported, which are not recorded, and does not account for differing definitions between countries".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/01/07...

> Three-fourths of the perpetrators of India's 24,206 rapes in 2011 are still at large, and that's not even including the rapes that go unreported, which are thought to be the majority of cases. The women and girls who do report being raped can sometimes face antipathy or outright hostility from police.

[_nedR]

Lets take statistics for a type of crime that does almost always get reported.

Homicide rate in US : 4.7 per 100,000

Homicide rate in India : 3.5 per 100,000

Most of the world's perception of rape in India is based exclusively on foreign media coverage of the issue which presents a heavily skewed image compared to reality on the ground. Once the media settles on a popular narrative ("India is unsafe for women") they keep reporting every incident that reinforces that narrative. Fact of the matter is India has relatively low rates of crime (especially considering the poverty and inequality).

[ceejayoz]

Hard to say how accurate a comparision that is.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-officially-under...

> The National Crime Records Bureau, India’s official source of crime data, is systematically undercounting virtually every crime in India on account of a statistical shortcoming, The Hindu has learnt.

http://newint.org/blog/majority/2012/02/07/dowry-deaths-in-i...

> For every dowry death reported, there are dozens that go unreported. Of the 8,391 reported cases in 2010, although 93.2 per cent were charge-sheeted, the conviction rate was a miserable 33.6 per cent. The murderers and their families get away with it. What’s worse, they go scot free and bring back another bride.

I'd be interested in seeing murder rates for rural versus city areas. I know the tribal areas of Pakistan set up their own alternative courts, and wouldn't be surprised if similar things happened in rural India.

[RealGeek]

Rape cases are under reported even in US. Majority of the rapists in US are also let go free. In fact, the rapists often intimidate the vicitim by hiring expensive lawyers and suing them back for reputation damages.

[ceejayoz]

Agreed, entirely. Neither country's reported rate of rapes accurately reflects the actual number of rapes, so comparing based off those official stats is absurd.