Why It’s Harder For African American Women To Report Campus Sexual Assaults
Chardonnay Madkins knows firsthand the pressures African American women can face when reporting campus sexual assaults. She says she was assaulted in two separate incidents, once at a mostly white college and another time at a historically black college. In reporting...Why 89% Of Colleges Reporting No Sexual Assaults Is A Bad Thing
Contradicting the reality of campus sexual assault, nearly 90% of colleges reported zero incidents of rape in 2015, according to data newly released by the U.S. Department of Education. About 11,000 institutions disclosed their most recent annual crime reports, as...Here’s Why Schools Should Handle Sexual Assault Reports
Ask any advocate who works on sexual assault in schools, and they’ll probably agree that the most common question we get asked is “Why not just turn these cases over to the police?” After all, when most people think of rape and other forms of gendered violence, they...LAPD: Latinos Are Reporting Fewer Sexual Assaults Amid A Climate Of Fear
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck states that reports of sexual assault and domestic violence made by the city’s Latino residents have plummeted this year amid concerns that immigrants in the country illegally could risk deportation by interacting with police or...