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An annual survey that asks Americans about crimes they’ve experienced showed that the rate at which those surveyed said they had been raped or sexually assaulted nearly doubled from 2017 to 2018.
The 2018 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), released Tuesday, is managed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics at the U.S. Justice Department, and asks people if they’ve been victims of crimes — even if they didn’t report them to police.
“We go to about 150,000 households each year, interviewing about 240,00 people,” says Rachel Morgan, a statistician at BJS. “We have found consistently that about half or less than half of crimes are actually reported to police, so the FBI are getting different numbers than we are.”
The FBI collects crime data directly from police departments, and releases a separate annual crime report, typically in October.
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‘New York Times’ Reporters Explain How They United Women, Helping Trigger #MeTooThe stand-out result in the 2018 survey is the rate at which respondents said they’d been victims of rape or sexual assault. That number nearly doubled over the previous year, from 1.4 per 1000 in 2017 to 2.7 in 2018.
Independent analysts say that jump is the most statistically significant figure in the 2018 report.
Callie Rennison, a professor at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs and an expert in sex crime victimology, used to work on the government’s victimization survey and says it uses a conservative method when counting rape numbers.
“I think the fact that even with that conservative estimate, with the fact that most people aren’t willing to share these incidents that we’re seeing a significant increase from one year to another is something really worth paying attention to,” Rennison said. “It says something important.”
Trumpturds should note; this did not happen under Obama’s administration nor can it be attributed to Hillary’s emails. The NRA and loose gun control has not helped. This happened under Trump’s watch.
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