“We had the highest number of (military) sexual assaults ever reported in the last year” and “we had the lowest conviction rate and the lowest prosecution rate.”
What PolitiFact found
The number of reported military sexual assaults increased in all but one year between 2010 and 2019. Conviction and prosecution rates have generally dropped year-to-year since 2013.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kirsten Gillibrand (U.S. Senator, D-N.Y.) made this claim around 23 February 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 March 2021, 30 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Kirsten Gillibrand has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
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