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...

About 10 years ago the Liz Claiborne Corporation did a comprehensive study about teenage dating and the perils associated with it such as assaults that are normally connected to domestic violence. Recently there was another study done and the conclusions and facts presented were almost exactly the same. What does that mean? That nothing has gotten better for young women in their...

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...

Experts in the domestic violence field report that from November through January they get more incidents of domestic violence than any other time of the year. They credit a variety of factors including "tax returns, lay-offs, and other factors can stress many people out. Families gather during the holiday and winter, and with the cold weather, many are forced to stay indoors....

One of the most frequent places for women to get assaulted is in parking lots. There's a couple of contributing factors; first of all many parking lots are poorly lit and offer excellent hiding places for the bad guys. Secondly women who are coming out of stores are frequently not paying attention with a variety of distractions. In this story the women...

When the California legislature reconvenes in January, assembly member Mike Gatto from Los Angeles is introducing a bill that would amend the state code of education requiring colleges to report sexual assaults that occur on or near college campuses to local police departments. This is a huge change from the way assaults on college campuses are handled now. Now they are either...