The military lacks the historicaldata to determine the effectiveness of sexual assault programs at installations and academies, officials said, which is why they are encouraging a Baltimore congressman?s legislation to create a new military sexual assault database.
“If a congressman called me today and asked how many occurrences of sexual assault of a service member happened at his local military installation, we couldn?t break the data out that way,” said Kaye Whitley, director of the U.S. Department of Defense?s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office.
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