Sexual assault in the military declines
The Washington Post print as facts some stupid report from the Pentagon which is based on pure speculation. Take this paragraph for example;
Statistics released Monday show that 6,172 sexual assaults were reported in fiscal 2016, up from 6,083 in 2015 and 6,131 in 2014, the report said. The figures include everything from groping to rape, and is still believed to represent progress because a Pentagon survey found that the frequency with which a sexual assault victim reports an attack has increased from about 1 in 14 in 2006 to about 1 in 3 last year. That ratio was about 1 in 4 the year before.
How do they know that the frequency that victims report sexual battery has improved? I mean, if it’s not reported, how does anyone know that it happened at all? It’s because of a survey;
The Pentagon arrived at its findings both by compiling sexual assault reports and carrying out a survey in which more than 150,000 of the Defense Department’s 1.2 million men and 227,000 women responded. The survey found that about 14,900 sexual assaults of some kind occurred in 2016, down from about 34,000 in 2006.
Everyone always tells the truth in surveys. How many of those surveyed were in the military eleven years ago?
And there’s this gem;
Women remain at a greater risk of sexual assault in the military because about 85 percent of the force is made up of men….
I suppose that all men tend to commit sexual assault, so if we recruit more women into the military, that will tilt the scales in their favor.
It’s not the military culture that causes sexual assault, it’s the popular culture that worships at the alter of the mistreatment of women. I’ll wager that women in the military are safer than they would be if they were on a college campus – and less than 50% of college students are men.
I guess the social justice warriors in the Pentagon want to prove their value to the bureaucrats.
Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.
Category: Big Pentagon
First of all, the data, according to the graph’s key, include complains of sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is not sexual assault and, what’s more, complaints are just that, not guilty findings. Secondly, the mess looks to trace to the Pentagon (insert shocked face here] which responded to the sexual assault concerns of Babs Mikulski, et al, with immense overkill. There never was a culture within the military that winked at actual sexual assault, and confusing he-man, locker-room dick measurements with rape and groping and such is at the root of this. Of course the Pentagonals will say that ‘there is much improvement but much work is left to be done’ or some such shit. As for the WaPo, DeMoth/Creme de Menthe/Whatever, he needs to learn a few things about writing. “The figures include everything from groping to rape, and is still believed to represent progress….” Is? The subject is figures and that takes a pural verb. Also, while I’m at it, it’s fine to write “data is” in informal writing, but this guy is paid well to write. he ought to know that data is plural.
So in their own words, if 1 in 4 incidents last year generated 6,083 reports, then there were roughly 24,300+ incidents, right? And one in 3 reported in 2016 generated 6,183, so there must have been 18,500+. Yeah, that is a hell of an increase: of -25%.
What? More meaningless drivel? Somebody spews wishful thinking which results in a worthless study followed by committees and training and power point presentation to multitudes of folks whose only sensible response is to scratch their heads as they wonder what any of that crap had to do with mission effectiveness.
Meanwhile, the same people who always did investigate true sexual assaults continue to investigate true sexual assaults. The same type reprobates commit sexual assault who have always committed sexual assault, and they are being prosecuted for it when it is reported. After thorough investigations. Just like always.
And the stupid studies have done nothing except muddy the waters, confusing sane people everywhere, and wasting a bunch of time which should be spent in worthwhile pursuits.
Liars, Damn Liars, and Statisticians.
^^^THIS^^^
Wait a minute. If you guys are engaging in dick measuring contests in the locker room, isn’t that something that can be misconstrued as sexual assault? I mean, is there pointing and laughing going on? Are you using rulers or side-by-side comparisons?
When I went to the VA a while back, I was asked if I’d be subjected to sexual assault. Since it wasn’t defined by the inquirer, and what I had to put up with was a bunch of post-adolescent morons trying to gross me out, I had to say “No” because otherwise, I might have been able to claim about 958 episodes of it, maybe more.
Maybe I should have said ‘yes’, but that was before the ‘Days of D.A.B’ and his ilk.
In case you were wondering where certain nicknames came from, wonder no more. There was The Club, Spike, Tootsie Roll, Fat Boy, Stalk, Dr. Long, Thimble, just to name a few.
In surveys I am a 25 year old man with a 192 IQ and make $250,000 a year or more. I own 5 homes and have a Doctorate degree. My life is great in surveys.
that reminds me of a Brad Paisley country song..” so much cooler online”
Dude, I thought you were one of those guys dating a “French model”…
I don’t know what you guys are talking about–the SAPR training is working great. I haven’t raped a single person since they started forcing me to sit through it.
Women in the military have a higher incident of ____________________ fill in the blank.
See how easy research is.
Lemme try:
“Class 2-onset constipation”
“exposure to incinerated fecal matter”
“swamp crotch”
“unfashionable apparel choices”
Hey, you might be on to something!
Breaking the “3 seconds look” rule can be easily construed as sexual harassment.
I think is down to 1 second now.
I don’t. I don’t waste my time looking at military women.
Dear WaPo idiots:
Where would you feel safer at night: San Diego Submarine Base, or USC campus?
Camp Lejeune or Georgetown?
Lackland AFB or Columbia?
Fort Drum or U of Miami (FL)?
I’d drop the mic, but, well, you get the idea.
Oh, that’s easy, SEA. Lefties always feel safer among their own kind. Maybe they are afraid of being contaminated should they hang around military folks. They also are more afraid of having their feelings hurt than of physical assault.
In all fairness, I, too, feel safer among my own kind. My kind isn’t prone to stupid crap like rape, assault, burning other people’s stuff, breaking windows and the like.
Maybe it depends upon how you define the word safe.
SEA, you have to be fair to the little widgets. They don’t go outside unless the pavement is dry. They have to be near a coffee shop. And they never go anywhere without their pocket pets, the infernal tablet or smartphone, which mean more to them than life itself.
Was this an issue during your era Ex-PH2, or any of the other females here?
I did shore duty at an East Coast Helo Squadron that had males and females working side-by-side (Right about the time females were starting to go to the actual fleet), and I never once heard of a sexual assault occurring. However, that being said there was plenty of fraternization going on between all the ranks. It was so bad we joked about being in a soap opera called ‘As The Rotor Head Turns’.
No, Atkron, in my ‘era’ it was rancidly bad dirty jokes and plain old rudeness, just to see if they could make us girls squirm. I saw occasional fraternization, too, but not as much as seems to be going on now.
Squirm-inducing rudeness is in no way limited to male-female military interactions.
No disrespect intended Ex-PH2.
None taken, Atkron.