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When the media and politicians are working together to hide events and identities it's tough to get reliable stats. Now I realize that sentence sounds like tinfoil hat stuff, but the efforts to keep the Cologne new years eve mass assaults and the Roterham grooming gangs under wraps is well documented. Literally thousands of victims involved, yet there was a concerted effort to keep events out of the publics eye. Shameful in all ways.
Yes, it does, to an extent at least.
I do agree that there were obvious efforts to mute the backlash of the Cologne events for obvious reasons, and whether those efforts were moral or not is a matter of debate.
But the only way that there could be a massive conspiracy to hide spikes in sexual assault reports would be for the local police departments to turn away or rip up victim reports, which we would definitely hear about if that were happening. Because crime data is victim-driven (with analytical data from offender reports used to supplement), there is no way to suppress a quantitative spike. Now, to be sure, they could muddle the demographic identification of perpetrators (saying "white" or "Asian"), but that would be fairly transparent to a discerning eye.