There is what is being reported here and there is reality. Sadly, the reporter decided to review databases instead of spending a few days or weeks tagging along with a sex crimes unit.

My immediate thought was 20%? That's all?

As a patrol constable for almost a decade, my experience, and those of my peers, is that the actual number is much, much higher. Numerous examples come to mind - The teen girl who missed curfew and had me and my partner crawling through a dumpster searching for discarded underwear,  until she tearfully admitted that she lied about being raped to avoid getting in trouble for staying at her boyfriends for the evening.......the lady who was brought to Rockyview Hospital by her boyfriend after being raped, only to admit to the detectives that we called out @ 0200hrs that she made up the story because her boyfriend would go crazy if he found out that she cheated on him..

I've got a dozen more...

Bottom line...less sensationalism and more gritty reporting please.