{"id":8910,"date":"2018-01-28T13:37:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T19:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=8910"},"modified":"2018-01-28T13:37:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T19:37:14","slug":"why-dont-victims-of-stalking-report-the-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=8910","title":{"rendered":"Why Don&#8217;t Victims of Stalking Report The Crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FACT&#8230;when it comes to victims (targets) of stalking. \u00a0<\/strong>According to<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Katrina Baum, Ph.D., Shannan Catalano, Ph.D., and Michael Rand, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Kristina Rose, National Institute of Justice:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<ul>\n<li>Male (37%) and female (41%) stalking victimizations were equally likely to be reported to the police.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"1\">Why don&#8217;t ALL victims (targets) report the crime?<\/h2>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Some victims (targets) don&#8217;t believe they will be taken seriously. \u00a0Sometimes they themselves wonder who is doing this to them and why. Then many others have reported it to law enforcement, and it has not been taken seriously so they &#8220;give up&#8221; on reporting incidents. \u00a0I&#8217;m sure there are many other reasons why they don&#8217;t report it, BUT no matter what the reason, ALL victims (targets) should ALWAYS report EVERY incident of stalking, get the officer&#8217;s business card and ask for a copy of their report. \u00a0They should also keep their own timeline of the incidents and keep all info in a secure place for a possible future case against their stalker(s). \u00a0You are your best advocate!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"1\">Click on the link below for the U.S. Department of Justice publication of &#8220;<em>Fewer than Half of Victims Report Violent Crimes<\/em>.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p class=\"blogdate\"><em>Thursday, December 14, 2017<\/em><br \/>\n<em>By Darlene Hutchinson, Director of the Office for Victims of Crime, the Office of Justice Programs<\/em><\/p>\n<p>the Bureau of Justice Statistics released its latest estimates of crime from the <a title=\"BJS data collection of surveys, documents and related links\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bjs.gov\/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&amp;iid=245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Crime Victimization Survey<\/a>, one of two national measures of crime rates in the United States (along with the FBI&#8217;s Uniform Crime Reports).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image_rgt\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ojp.gov\/images\/blog-images\/blog-page-ncvs.jpg?w=584&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"58% of victims of violent crime do not report the offenses to police\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ojp.gov\/ojpblog\/blog-ncvs2016.htm\">https:\/\/ojp.gov\/ojpblog\/blog-ncvs2016.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FACT&#8230;when it comes to victims (targets) of stalking. \u00a0According to\u00a0Katrina Baum, Ph.D., Shannan Catalano, Ph.D., and Michael Rand, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Kristina Rose, National Institute of Justice: Male (37%) and female (41%) stalking victimizations were equally likely to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=8910\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[490],"tags":[1451,1332,1146,1452,1454,1449,1455,1453],"class_list":["post-8910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morgans-investigation","tag-beyourownadvocate","tag-justice4morgan","tag-justiceformorgan","tag-notreportedtopolice","tag-reportingcrimes","tag-stalkedmurderedinco","tag-takestalkingseriously","tag-victimsofstalking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2wvjS-2jI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5306,"url":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=5306","url_meta":{"origin":8910,"position":0},"title":"Typologies of Stalkers &#8211; predicting who will be stalked&#8230;","author":"Toni Ingram","date":"February 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The first thing I want to say is you can not predict who is going to be stalked, or why they are being stalked. \u00a0I have heard from so many victims and survivors of stalking that have said people have suggested to them that maybe \"they\" did something wrong that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Morgan's Investigation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Morgan's Investigation","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?cat=490"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7778,"url":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=7778","url_meta":{"origin":8910,"position":1},"title":"FACTS ABOUT STALKING&#8230;#NSAM #NSAM2017!","author":"Toni Ingram","date":"January 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Stalking is a crime that is pervasive, dangerous, & potentially lethal. 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