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Podcast: On The Issues With Michele Goodwin
Episode: Combatting Military Sexual Assault: Who Guards our Coast Guard? (with Melissa McCafferty)
Description: Report after report has shown that sexual harassment and assault are pervasive throughout the U.S. armed forces: at least 15.7 percent of military personnel and veterans reported military sexual trauma, a number that is likely smaller than the actual total due to shame and fear around reporting. What’s more, perpetrators are rarely if ever held accountable: according to a recent ProPublica investigation, more than half of the 900 soldiers who were allowed to leave the Army in the past decade rather than go to trial were accused of violent crimes.But in the face of a cu...