http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4894726.stm

"...The number of rapes reported to the police is rising year on year..."

Wonder why that is.

The number of rapists given a caution and freed instead of facing jail terms has more than doubled in the past decade, Home Office figures reveal. In 2004, 40 offenders were cautioned for rape - compared with 19 in 1994.
The Home Office said cautions were used only in the most exceptional cases, but campaign group Rape Crisis said it was "shocked" by the statistics.
Cautions might be used in historic cases where the rapist is old, but the victim wants the crime acknowledged.
The number of rapes reported to the police is rising year on year.
But the proportion resulting in a conviction is falling - from about one in three in 1977, to one in 20 in 2004.
It is completely unacceptable that rapists are able to continue living their day-to-day lives or even be free to rape again

Rape Crisis chairwoman Nicole Westmarland

The Home Office said it was committed to bringing more rapists to justice.
A Home Office spokesman said: "Rape is an appalling crime, it devastates the lives of victims and their families, however rape will always be a difficult offence to prosecute."
The Sexual Offences Act 2003 created a clearer definition of consent and set out how a defendant in a rape case needed to show grounds to believe they had consent.
The issue of consent was also the subject of a government campaign launched in March which targeted young men.
'Rare circumstances'
Crown Prosecution Service guidelines state that rapists can only be cautioned in "rare circumstances".
As well as the use of cautions in historic cases, very young offenders who have been referred to a course of treatment outside the criminal justice system can also be cautioned.
But Rape Crisis chairwoman Nicole Westmarland said: "It is completely unacceptable that rapists are able to continue living their day-to-day lives or even be free to rape again.
"We are shocked... so many cautions have been given in rape cases," she added. "Rape is a crime that has a serious impact on its victims for years or even decades."
Nicola Harwin, chief executive of Women's Aid, a charity working to end domestic violence, told the Times newspaper: "We need to be told the exact circumstances in which cautions are given, what the ground rules are and whether they are being applied properly."
Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman Nick Clegg told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that there were circumstances where a caution for rape would be appropriate.
"If the victims themselves don't want to go through a whole trial in court, if it involves very young kids, or if it's an offence that maybe took place decades ago, but we really do need to know more," he said.
"This takes place in the context of pitifully low and declining conviction rates for rape."
In 2001 there were an estimated 80,000 incidents of rape or attempted rape against women aged between 16 and 59 in England and Wales.