- A survey like this one on another site
was posted on a high volume news site in 2002. 12,000 people
visited that survey in 24 hours. About 120 sent in responses
saying they had most or all of the symptoms of organized stalking.
That is 1 person in a hundred, primarily in North America.
(To be on the safe side, a rate of one organized stalking target
per 1,000 people is probably better.)
- The following statistic covers all reports to police relating
to infractions of Canada's "Criminal Harassment" law, which
covers stalking. The statement is from Statistics Canada, the
federal agency which maintains statistics for all areas of
Canadian life, including policing. The following statement
was in response to Eleanor White's request for a checkoff item
on Canada's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system denoting
harassment reports involving simultaneous multiple harassers
(Chief, Policing Services Program responding):
"Thank you for e-mail of Jan. 17. There is no need to add a
new field to the national Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) survey
to collect information on multiple harassers, as a field already
exists for the identification of multiple accused persons for
all criminal incidents reported to police. As an example, of
the 10,756 incidents of criminal harassment reported to police
in 2006, 1,429 of these (or 13%) involved more than one accused."
That is one criminal harassment report in eight, a very significant
percentage. While not all of these would strictly fall under the
organized stalking category, this rate of simultaneous multiple
harassment reports at least hints that organized stalking may
not be as rare as the general public seems to think.
- A report on stalking posted by the American Journal
of Psychiatry on their web site, journal reference 158:795-798,
May 2001, states ... 6 out of 201 (3%) respondents reported
multiple stalkers... Compare that with the 13% in criminal
harassment cases above, reported by Statistics Canada, and
clearly, stalking by multiple stalkers is a very real crime,
acknowledged by mainstream professionals.
Note carefully: There is such a thing as PROXY stalking, in
which a single stalker, motivated by amorous interest or mental
illness, enlists helpers. Organized stalking is NOT proxy stalking,
but rather is stalking by a group totally independent of whomever
originally submitted the target's name to the stalking group.
The stalking group typically has no knowledge of why the target's
name was submitted, and instead is given a lie, often that the
target is a pedophile, to motivate the group stalking effort.
Link to the AJP article: http://tinyurl.com/3fa3yw
Alternate link if above link is broken.
- Article: "The Course and Nature of Stalking: A Victim
Perspective"
Authors: Sheridan, Davies, Boon
Source: Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 40, Number 3,
August 2001 , pp. 215-234(20)
In 5% of the cases (5/95), there was more than one stalker. pp.219
"In 5 cases perpetrators were part of a group..", pp.219
"... [40%] of victims (38) said that friends and or family of their
stalker had also been involved in their harassment... This is a
surprising find as the popular view of a stalker is of a lone
and secretive individual." pp.222 [COMMENT: This suggests that
the above "5%" cases may have been groups other than family or
friends, which is suggestive of organized stalking as opposed to
simple proxy stalking. Organized stalking involves groups which
are networked everywhere, while proxy stalking has a single stalker
who has a very personal focus on the target. Organized stalking
groups also work on more than one target, unlike proxy stalking.]
Typical of organized stalking: "In 15% of cases, the victim could
provide no possible reason for their harassment" pp.226
- Statistics from the book Mobbing:
Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace show that in
Sweden, about 3.5% of the working population is subject to
mobbing, which is organized stalking in the workplace. 3.5%
of working people is roughly 1 person in a hundred total, and
is in line with the organized stalking survey above.
- Statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control concerning
harassment and stalking cases give an overall figure for the U.S.
of 4.5 people per 100 as having been harassed or stalked at one
time. Our informal survey's result of about one person per 100
being targeted by organized stalking fits well within that 4.5
per 100 figure. (Source, ABC News)
- Statistics from the British (government) Home Office state
that 1,900,000 people in the United Kingdom were victims of stalking
or harassment at any one time as of the year 2001. That is about
3 people per hundred. Here again, the organized stalking survey's 1
person in a hundred is not out of line. Most interesting is that
roughly 45% of the stalking victims are MEN! That suggests a very
different picture from the conventional view of stalking victims
being mostly women, and may well point toward the type of stalking
described here, on this web site.
Click here for documentation.
(Graph below shows all harassment offences, not specifically stalking.)
