| [AolNews] This year, Atlanta PD changed how it reports rapes, following the FBI's gender-neutral definition and allowing male victims and other people who were previously not counted in the data as part of its crime totals. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Atlanta had previously reported rapes, exclusively, as the number of times the assailant was a man and the victim was a woman, which is how the crime is defined under Georgia state rules. Because of the new definition, there's been "a much higher number of cases being classified and reported as rape," Atlanta Police Spokesperson Lisa Bender told the Journal-Constitution. |
