It is estimated that 734,630 people were raped (including threatened, attempted, or completed rape) in the U.S. in 2018. SOURCE Forty percent of rapes and sexual assaults were reported to police in 2017, but only about 25% were reported to police in 2018.
According to research from Bowling Green State University, police officers in the US were charged with forcible rape 405 times between 2005 and 2013. That’s an average of 45 a year. Forcible fondling was more common, with 636 instances. Yet experts say those statistics are, by no means, comprehensive.
Nationwide, 81% of women and 43% of men reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment and/or assault in their lifetime. SOURCE One in three female victims of completed or attempted rape experienced it for the first time between the ages of 11 and 17.
“The worst cops are going to get the most protection.” What data is available paints a jarring picture. One statistic from Stinson indicates that for every sexual assault that makes the news, there are almost always more victims – on average, five more. About half of the victims are children, researchers say.
79.6 percentMost female victims of rape (79.6 percent) experienced their first rape before the age of 25 and almost half (42.2 percent) experienced their first rape before age 18.
Across their lifetime, 1 in 3 women, around 736 million, are subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence from a non-partner – a number that has remained largely unchanged over the past decade.
One in five women in college experiences sexual assault. Studies show that students are at the highest risk of sexual assault in the first few months of their first and second semesters in college.
Sexual desire is typically higher in men than in women, with testosterone (T) thought to account for this difference as well as within-sex variation in desire in both women and men. However, few studies have incorporated both hormonal and social or psychological factors in studies of sexual desire.
RapeCrime reports Rape is the most under-reported crime; 63% of sexual assaults are not reported to police (o).
If you've been scrolling through TikTok recently, you've probably seen videos regarding “97 Percent”. This trend has been dominating social media. The “97 Percent” trend refers to the 97% of women in the United States who have been sexually assaulted.
burglariesThe most prevalent crimes committed on college campuses include burglary, motor vehicle theft, sexual assault, and fondling. In 2020, of the nearly 22,000 on-campus crimes, burglaries accounted for around 7,000 and forcible sex offenses accounted for over 9,000.
Estimates published by WHO indicate that globally about 1 in 3 (30%) of women worldwide have been subjected to either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.
Every 98 seconds someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted. That means every single day more than 570 people experience sexual violence in this country.
How common is sexual assault in Australia? The 2016 PSS estimated that, in Australia, 1.6% (148,000) of women and 0.6% (57,200) of men aged 18 and over had been sexually assaulted at least once in the 12 months before the survey.
Approximately 4.7 million women – or 30% of all women aged 15 and older – have been sexually assaulted outside of an intimate relationships at least once since age 15 (Statistics Canada, 2019). According to self-reported data, there were 22 incidents of sexual assault for every 1,000 people in Canada aged 15 and older.
Stamper and others believe the solution lies in revamping police culture.
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If a licensed officer were to violate someone’s rights – by illegally searching or arresting them, manipulating evidence, using unnecessary force or, of course, engaging in sexually predatory behavior – that officer’s license would be yanked.
All 18,000 departments operate under their own rules, based on their traditions, policies, procedures and recruitment methods, he said. He believes creating national standards – not for small things, but for larger constitutional issues – could improve the quality of policing.
One of the greatest impediments to understanding the scope of police sexual assault is the victims’ reluctance to report the crime.
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It’s pie in the sky, Stamper acknowledges, but until America changes the nature of the conversation around policing, things are destined to remain the same when it comes to crooked cops.