Even as its ridership was
decimated by the pandemic,
Uber says it recorded 141
reports of rape in the United States the company disclosed in its safety report
released Thursday.
The 78-page report, which covers 2019 and 2020, is the
second-ever Uber has released regarding safety incidents.
In its latest report, Uber said it received 3,824 reports of the
five most severe categories of sexual assault, which range from
"non-consensual kissing of a non-sexual body part" to
"non-consensual sexual penetration," or rape. That's down from the
5,981 reports it recorded in 2017 and 2018, per
its first report released
in December 2019. Uber said that riders were the accused party 43% of the time
in sexual assault incident reports, similar to its previous report (45%).
About 91% of the victims of rape were riders and about 7% of the
victims were drivers. Women made up 81% of the victims while men comprised
about 15% (nearly double that of the first report).
Notably, Uber's total number of U.S. trips over the two
year period fell to 2.1 billion down from 2.3 billion in the first report, and
average trips fell from 3.1 million to 2.8 million per day. The company notes
that the rate of sexual assault reports decreased by 38% from the first report
to the second.