Uber Sexual Assault Statistics

In 2020, Uber had 83 incident reports of attempted non-consensual sexual penetration

In 2020, Uber had 528 incident reports of non-consensual touching of a sexual body part.

In 2020, Uber had 141 incident reports of non-consensual sexual penetration

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52.2 million women (43.6%) experience some form of sexual violence in their lifetime.
A quarter of men (24.8% or 27.6 million) experience some form of sexual violence in their lifetime.
Every 68 seconds an American is sexually assaulted.
Uber received 5,981 sexual violence or assault allegations in 2017.
In 2018, Uber received 3,045 sexual violence or assault allegations.
Every 68 seconds an American is sexually assaulted.
In 2020, Uber had 83 incident reports of Attempted non-consensualsexual penetration
In 2020, Uber had 528 incident reports of Non-consensual touching of a sexual body part.
In 2020, Uber had 110 incident reports of Non-consensual kissing ofa sexual body part.
In 2020, Uber had 141 incident reports of Non-consensual sexualpenetration
In 2019, Uber had 513 incident reports of Non-consensual kissing ofa non-sexual body part.
In 2019, Uber had 202 incident reports of Attempted non-consensualsexual penetration.
In 2019, Uber had 1,526 incident reports of Non-consensual touching of a sexual body part.
In 2019, Uber had 338 incident reports of Non-consensual kissing ofa sexual body part.
In 2019, Uber had 247 incident reports of Non-consensual sexualpenetration.
The rate of sexual assault reported on the Uber app decreased by 38% between 2017-2018.
Between 2019-2020, the total number of sexual assault reports in the 5 categories went from 5,981 to 3,824.
Lyft received an increasing number of reports of sexual assault in recent years, including more than 1,800 in 2019, according to a safety report from the ride-hailing company.
Uber reported 998 sexual assault incidents including 141 rape reports in 2020.
Over 99% of all rides occur without any safety report at all.lyft.com/blog/posts/lyfts-community-safety-report
In 2020, Uber recorded 141 reports of rape on its platform in the United States.
In an independent investigation conducted by CNN, the publication found 103 Uber drivers who had been accused of sexual assault or abuse of passengers.
Most categories of sexual assault saw reductions of up to 20-30% between 2017-2018 and 2019-2020.
About 91% of the victims of rape were riders. 7% of the victims were drivers.
7% of the victims were drivers.
Women made up 81% of the victims.
men comprised about 15% (nearly double that of the first report).
20 fatalities as a result of physical assaults over the two-year period, 15 of which were riders.
US Department of Justice study found only 25% of sexual assaults or rape were reported to police.
More than 45 rides on Uber happen every second. At that scale, we are not immune to society’s most serious safety challenges, including sexual assault.
4 million Uber trips happened every day in the US—more than 45 rides every second.
Drivers report assaults at roughly the same rate as riders across the 5 most serious categories of sexual assault.
In 2017, 570 reported non-consensual kissing of a non-sexual body part.
In 2017, 307 Attempted non-consensual sexual penetration.
In 2017,1440 Non-consensual touching of a sexual body part.
In 2017, 390 Non-consensual kissing of a sexual body part.
In 2017,1440 Non-consensual touching of a sexual body part.
In 2017, 229 reported Non-consensual sexual penetration.
In 2017, 229 reported Non-consensual sexual penetration.
Riders account for nearly half of the accused parties across the 5 most serious sexual assault categories.
Riders account for nearly half of the accused parties across the 5 most serious sexual assault categories.
44% of US women and nearly 25% of US men will be the victim of contact sexual violence167 in their lifetimes.
92% focused on the driver party as the potential perpetrator.
8% highlighted incidents in which the rider party was accused.
99.4% Rider reports of Non-Consensual Sexual Penetration were reporting a rider as the victim.
20% of survivors feared retaliation.
13% of survivors believed the police would not do anything to help
13% believed it was a personal matter
8% reported to a different official.
8% believed it was not important enough to report.
2% believed the police could not do anything to help.
30% gave another reason, or did not cite the reason.
2% believed the police could not do anything to help.
1,560 passengers experienced Non-consensual touching of a sexual body part
In 2017, riders reported 376 Non-consensual kissing of a sexual body part.
66% Said their Uber or Lyft driver has made them feel uncomfortable.
72% of female passengers experienced some form of questionable behavior by a rideshare driver during their ride.
12% reported having an experience where a rideshare driver attempted to touch them without warning or consent.
12% reported having an experience where a rideshare driver attempted to touch them without warning or consent.
10% of passengers experienced a driver attempting to touch a non-sexual body part.
4% reported that actual touching of non-sexual body parts occurred.
24 reported attempted touching of a sexual body part.
21 reported attempted kissing of a non-sexual body part.
13 reported non-consensual kissing of a non-sexual body part.
103 Uber drivers in the U.S. who were accused of sexually assaulting passengers in the past four years.
31 out of the 103 Uber drivers who had been accused of sexually assaulting a passenger had been convicted for other related crimes.
From 2017-2018, half of all Non-Consensual Touching of a Sexual Body Part incident reports involved touching of female breasts.
From 2017-2018, 15% and 4% of all Non-Consensual Touching of a Sexual Body Part incident reports involved the buttocks and mouth.
From 2017-2018, Touching of the genitals or the genital area was reported in 46% of user reports of Non-Consensual Touching of a Sexual Body Part incidents.
Sexual Misconduct And Sexual Violence Taxonomy, were reported to occur in about 1 in 5,000,000 completed trips during the 2017-2018 time frame.
One of the frightening tidbits revealed in the Uber Files details the company’s strategy for dealing with assault in at least one case abroad. When an Uber driver raped a 25-year-old passenger in Delhi in 2014, the company decided to “shift blame to flawed Indian background checks.”
These types of incidents were reported on 0.00002% of trips.
99.4% Rider reports of Non-Consensual Sexual Penetration were reporting a rider as the victim.
66.7% Driver reports of Non-Consensual Sexual Penetration were reporting a driver as the victim.
66% reported that a rideshare driver had made them feel varying degrees of uncomfortable during the ride – with more than half of them stating that they felt at least moderately uncomfortable during a rideshare experience.
Uber Technologies Inc. said it received 3,824 reports of sexual assault and misconduct across five categories on its ride-hailing app in 2019 and 2020
Uber reported sexual assaults had decreased by 38% from its initial report, which covered 2017 and 2018.
Uber is facing lawsuits from as many as 550 women passengers across the U.S. who have alleged they were assaulted by drivers on the platform.
998 sexual assault incidents were released by Uber’s safety data.
Incidents including 141 rape reports in 2020.
The 141 rape reports in 2020 mark a decline from 2019, in which it recorded 247 reports.
Uber’s first safety report, which details incidents from 2017 to 2018, found nearly 6,000 reports pertaining to sexual assault.
Over 124,000 documents, named the Uber Files were leaked including internal emails and text messages between executives and politicians. These files revealed inner workings of Uber from 2013 to 2017 and detail a history of lawbreaking, lobbying, and exploiting driver safety.
In 2018, it introduced continuous background checks on drivers using technology that monitors for new criminal offense reports. It said in the report that this feature has resulted in more than 80,000 drivers being removed from its platform to date.
60% of people reported that an Uber of Lyft driver asked personal questions.
About 91% of the victims of rape were riders and about 7% of the victims were drivers.
141 reports of non-consensual sexual penetration, or rape, in 2020, down from 247 in 2019.
Lyft, meanwhile, released its first ever safety report in October 2021, disclosing that it received 4,158 reports of sexual assault on its platform from 2017 to 2019.
Uber’s first ever safety report discloses 9 murders in the US last year.
Following Uber’s first report, the California Public Utilities Commission fined Uber $59 million for failing to turn over additional data on sexual assaults and harassment incidents on its platform

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