The Pentagon's latest report on sexual assaults in the military showed a 3% increase in the number of sexual assaults reported last year with 6,236 reports in fiscal year 2019.
Pentagon officials will have to await the results of an anonymous survey next year that will show whether thereflect an increase in crimes or additional reporting prompted by education efforts among service members.
Pentagon officials often attribute the annual increases to better awareness among service members about the importance in reporting assaults so they can lead to prosecutions and care or the victim. As an under-reported crime, Pentagon officials want victims to step forward, the numbers reflect incidents involving service members which occurred during or prior to their military service.
Schaefer said the slight increase in reports made him"cautiously optimistic" that efforts to educate service members are having an effect. Earlier this year the number of sexual assaults at the three military service academies spiked by 32% over last year with 149 reports of sexual assault involving a cadet or midshipman as a victim and/or subject during the 2019-2019 academic year. At the time, officials also cautioned that it was prudent to await the results of next year's prevalence study to determine if the crime rate had actually increased.
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