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Military Sexual assault Database

The Army is planning to create a database to track sexual assaults reported from military personal. While I can understand that there is a real need to be able to track and investigate these crimes- I have issue with a few of the finer points in this "plan". First being the requirement that victims personal information be obtained and included in the records. Understanding that civilians who are assaulted have enough of a hard time reporting it, under the confidence that their personal information is not tracked- I can not understand how the Army would validate the need to add more resistance to reporting these crimes on women who have some of the most difficult times reporting their assaults. Privacy is an extremely important issue, and I do not believe that forgoing that privacy in order for the Army to "track" your assault better should be necessary.
The second issue is even more disturbing. Where the Army plans to require all personal information from victims- they are making an exception to the rule for the assailant- given that the assailant has a higher rank, or security clearance.
In jest, the SS number, name, DOB among others things is required for victims- but can be waived for the sexual abuser. Nice little policy they have going on there.
I have no desire to see the Army protecting villains while helping to outcast victims. It is not only unacceptable- it is ignorant, injustice and the very fact that they even began to think of such a thing is a disgrace. At what point did the Army decide that criminals should have more privacy rights than the victims? Is this what we are to expect from the "New Army"? Is it just their personal way of lowering sexual assault cases. By alienating the victims so that they do not report the rape and sexual abuse experienced at the very hands of commanding officers?

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Anonymous said…
It figures. I was reading the other day how Violent Crime rates had continued to fall. One of the scientists concluded that the rapes column had seen significant decreases in reporting, mainly because of the privacy laws, etc. In other words, rapes weren't decreasing necessarily, but the data was being protected. Now, you have the military, who has seen NUMEROUS scandals regarding rape and sexual harrassment, designing a way to cover it's arse one more time. I would think that if enough stink was raised, they would have to change their methods. Rape is underreported now anyway due to unneccessary shame and guilt by the victim. We should be protecting them , not parading them.

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