Original sentence: According to the 1999 United States National Crime Victimization Survey only 39% of rapes and sexual assaults were reported to law enforcement officials.This is a very controversial view
Edited sentence: According to the 2003 United States National Crime Victimization Survey only 39% of rapes and sexual assaults were reported to law enforcement officials.Because of the nature of sexually violent acts like rape, that threshold is often difficult to meet.Many genuine reports to law enforcement of sexual assault, in which the survivor honestly and validly believes she was raped, are dismissed as false reports because there is insufficient evidence to achieve a conviction in a court of law.Such lines of questioning prohibited by rape shild laws usually have no relevent bearing on the current case and are designed to deflect blame away from the accused.The United States criminal justice system requires a burden of proof of guilt to be met that is convincing beyond a reasonable doubt.The latter is often confused with or mislabled as the former.There is often confusion between reports that are deliberately false and reports for which there is not enough evidence to advance an investigation or proceed to trial.This is a very controversial view that is not widely accepted