Pentagon Claims Progress on Sex Assaults Amid Questions on Data
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish is featured in this article from Bloomberg Businessweek:
Nancy Parrish, president of Protect Our Defenders, a victims’ support group, said the Pentagon “has released no evidence to prove its claim that victims have more trust in the existing military justice system or the treatment they have received.”
Even if the rate of assaults has stayed constant, Parrish said in a statement, “the number of reports remains absymally low.”
In releasing an updated sexual-assault prevention strategy today, Hagel also issued new directives that include a departmentwide review of military alcohol policies and new methods to encourage reporting by male victims of assault, who comprise the majority of sexual-assault cases.
