r/MurderedByWords • u/Bitter-Gur-4613 • Dec 17 '24

#3 Murder of Week Is he just stupid?

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u/ExtremlyFastLinoone Dec 17 '24

Unreported?

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u/samantha_CS Dec 17 '24

The figure seems to come from a 2012 Pentagon Survey.

The same commission report included the results of an anonymous survey of military personnel in which 23% of women and 4% of men reported experiencing unwanted sexual contact since enlistment. Based on this survey, the Department of Defense estimated that 26,000 service members experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact, from groping to rape, in the year 2012. 34% of women and 24% of men who reported these events in the anonymous survey stated that they had reported the event to authorities.[41]

Interestingly, a little later in the Wikipedia article is this:

The Pentagon estimated that 26,000 service members experienced unwanted sexual contact in 2012, rising from 19,000 in 2010. Of those cases, the Pentagon says, most involved attacks on men, predominantly by other men.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault_in_the_United_States_military