I find this reporting disingenuous:

1) When we demand the police/crown treat these crimes more seriously and with greater focus, why express alarm that these crimes states are stable while others are falling? If you want less sex crimes to be considered unfounded, the rates are going to rise

2) It's overwhelming clear from this reporting that the vast majority of sex assaults don't merit legal intervention. Why conflate the unreported stats to the reported when those not reporting feel its not a crime or at a level where authorities need to get involved?

3) How are you getting this 0.3% conviction rate? Are you taking those 600K+ incidents - the vast majority of which the victim says are NOT crimes and using that total figure to reach your conclusion? 

4) put all this together and it sounds like the Globe wants more investigations, and wants to try non-crimes as crimes, thereby increasing the rates - but rising rates are alarming.