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It may be challenging to fully understand resource impact to law enforcement and the hard costs of ruling out the hundreds of false confessions that came about after the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, although that irritating incident in 2006 is known to have a price tag of tens of thousands of dollars.

No matter which side of the fence a fake crime report resides, false allegation or confession, there is little recourse for departments or prosecutors and few penalties for perpetrators - -

Fake crimes rarely prosecuted
Authorities: Resources wasted trying to find evidence; penalties minor
Published in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
By Holly Abrams

"It sounded like a woman’s worst fear...He grabs her hair, slamming her head into her car. She struggles to get away, she says, fearing for her life.

The reported attack never happened. It was a fake, according to Allen County police.
“The story has been proven false,” said Sgt. Steve Stone, a spokesman for the department...

Other times, prosecutors choose not to file charges because the person who reported the crime has signs of mental illness, she said.

Such was the case in which a man came to Fort Wayne police, saying he wanted to confess to the 1996 high-profile slaying in Boulder, Colo., of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, Capt. Paul Shrawder recalled...."[read more]