Sexual Assaults on College Campus are up!

Sexual Assaults on College Campus are up!

WASHINGTON (AP) The number of sex offenses reported at American colleges and universities went up in the last decade even as overall campus crime decreased, according to an Education Department survey that also suggests high schools are safer than they used to be.

The report released Tuesday said 3,330 forcible sex offenses were reported on campuses in 2011, the latest data available for colleges and universities that researchers have analyzed. That was a 51 percent increase from the 2,200 reported a decade earlier. But the number of campus crimes in every other category, such as burglary and car theft, declined during the same period.

Steve Kardian reports that the DOJ estimates that less then 5% of those victimized during their college years will come forward and report the crime.