{"id":23782,"date":"2011-06-08T08:44:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T12:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23782"},"modified":"2011-06-08T08:44:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T12:44:57","slug":"284-sexual-assaults-at-va-facilities-in-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23782","title":{"rendered":"284 sexual assaults at VA facilities in three years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/military\/2011-06-07-VA-facilities-sexual-assaults_n.htm\">USAToday<\/a> reports that there were 284 sexual assaults in Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs facilities during a three year period which ended last July. Both men and women were victims and the perpetrators were both patients and employees of the DVA.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Investigators blamed the assaults on a host of problems, including haphazard security measures, too few VA police and no program for assessing potentially dangerous patients. There was also a failure to report crimes to higher leadership for corrective systemwide action and to the VA inspector general.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, if they can&#8217;t ferret out potentially dangerous employees, how can they be expected to find equally dangerous patients?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The VA is reviewing the study and taking corrective steps, said Josh Taylor, VA press secretary. An operations center established in 2009 has improved the tracking of crime, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are taking steps to expand and improve our reporting of allegations and to provide more secure facilities,&#8221; Taylor said. &#8220;We take all allegations seriously and investigate them thoroughly.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somehow, i just don&#8217;t trust VA&#8217;s new programs after watching them screw the pooch on the New GI Bill and dick up the support for family members to treat their long term wounded at home.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing Shinseki like I do, he probably put a known sex-offender in charge of the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USAToday reports that there were 284 sexual assaults in Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs facilities during a &hellip; <a title=\"284 sexual assaults at VA facilities in three years\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23782\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">284 sexual assaults at VA facilities in three years<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,118,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-issues","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}