Rate Of Sexual Assaults on Campus Must Decline

This story from the Post-Gazette is an opinion piece about sexual assaults on college campuses. You can read the whole story HERE. The gist of the editorial is that parents have enough to worry about sending their daughter off to college without having to worry about whether or not she will be raped. And of course the young woman is in the...

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"Knockout Game" Hits Boonies In Canada

Here is a story from Revelstoke, British Columbia in Canada, a town that has a population of less than 7500 and is located 400 miles east of Vancouver-in other words out in the middle of nowhere. The story is about a wave of how high profile assaults in North America called the Knockout Game. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have been...

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College Sexual Assaults Often Go Unreported; Change On The Way?

Although the Federal Clery Act requires U.S. colleges to document and disclose all sexual assaults that occur on their campuses annually, universities can only tabulate reported incidents; and sexual assaults often go unreported. To address the problem, a number of students and experts on sexual violence are pushing universities to conduct comprehensive student surveys. While some schools have been accused of manipulating...

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Knockout Game Zeroes In On Elderly

Law enforcement officials in Dallas, Texas are investigating several attacks on men over 65 that they believe are part of the nationwide game called the 'knockout game.' Read the whole story HERE. One of the victims was punched in the parking lot of a Denny's restaurant will another occurred outside Campisi's. The purpose of the knockout game is to attack someone and...

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Sexual Assaults On College Campuses

One week ago today Pres. Obama signed a memorandum creating a task force to combat sexual assaults on the nation's college campuses. He gave the task force 90 days to draw some recommendations on how to deal with sexual assaults on college campuses-both on how to prevent them and how people respond to them-specifically law enforcement and University officials. Read the whole...

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Parking Lot Assaults-On The Rise?

Last week in Pueblo, Colorado there were three assaults that has the community on edge. Police are downplaying these incidents as normal, saying that it doesn't represent an increase in crime but just that people are reporting the crimes quicker. Read the whole story HERE. It is not a coincidence that all three of these assaults occurred in parking lots. Next to...

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Can New California Bill For Reporting Rapes On College Campuses Be The Answer?

more info here There is a new law before the California General Assembly that would change the way rapes on or near college campuses are reported. One of the big problems, in our opinion, is that sexual assaults on college campuses have typically been handled by on campus personnel with no outside interference from local police. This has led to a a...

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