Seems like an abnormally high proportion. Hopefully it's just because of a small sample size and not indicative of a Catholic church level cover-up in our law enforcement circles.
It takes $X million to collect evidence, hire a prosecutor, take time up in court AND they still have to balance the budget by going after different kinds of criminals so the agency looks like it's doing something to the general public.
So no, it's not a stupid conspiracy. Pay your taxes and vote for representatives that will increase funding!
https://reason.com/2017/10/13/cases-dropped-oakland-cops-dro...
"Judge Jon Rolefson dismissed charges against former Contra Costa County Sheriff's Deputy Ricardo Perez [...]
Perez was charged with felony unlawful sex with a minor, felony oral copulation with a minor, and two misdemeanor counts of engaging in lewd conduct. But Rolefson decided there was insufficient evidence Perez knew that Guap was under age 18. "
Not very hard, since the chances of a child being abused by a priest are incredibly small. I saw a chart of it from a .gov web site a couple of years ago, and it had public school teachers at 5x the rate of priests.
The reason the Church thing is a big scandal isn't because of the frequency, it's because of the cover-ups, and because priests are supposed to be at the top of the list of people that children can trust.
Also I recall this story, so hoping your statistics are off-
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/20/cathol...
it all just comes down to that the walls of anonymity are coming down and the privacy we are so afraid will be taken away by some corporation was long lost to the government who valued it even less