Military’s dubious stats on false sex assault cases cloud prosecutions, debate
Stars and Stripes
By Erik Slavin
Published: October 5, 2013
Chastened by lawmakers and commentators for having thousands of sexual assault reports, military leaders are arming themselves with statistics to “get tough” on the problem, while encouraging their subordinates to do the same.
But those statistics are far from scientific and, in the case of false reports, the numbers and definitions vary wildly.
The Navy Commander’s Guide to Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, for example, states that “false allegations of sexual assault are 3% per NCIS data,” referring to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
There is no footnote citing where the data originated, and an NCIS spokesman said that the statistic didn’t come from them.
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