It’s like they are coming in full support,” Rogers said. They’re not coming in with this judgmentalattitude or judgmental questioning.
are being trained in sexual assault, so they are coming in believing the victim. LaToya Rogers, a YWCA medical advocate who provides support to sexual assault survivors at South Side hospitals, said the #MeToo movement and an improvement in how medical professionals and Chicago police officers treat survivors has motivated many to go to authorities. There were more than 2,000 sexual assaults reported in the city through late December in both 20. While it is hard to gauge how much lifting COVID-19 restrictions, particularly at bars and nightclubs and in social gatherings, contributed to the increase of reported sexual assaults this year, the current citywide numbers appeared to have returned to levels reported before the pandemic. Throughout the city, as of Monday, there were 2,056 reported sexual assaults this year - a 28% increase compared to the same time frame in 2020 when there were 1,612 reported incidents, CPD data shows.