A drunk driver typically drives intoxicated dozens of times before getting caught. The risk of sexual assault spikes when someone is left alone with a perpetrator. The speaker argues you should intervene in these situations rather than wait and see what happens.
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So you see somebody drunk about to take keys and drive home. Is almost everybody at that party going to try to stop this person? Probably. Probably. If you're aware they're about to drunk drive, most people are like, that person can't drive. Somebody's got to do something. And they take action. What are the odds a drunk driver kills someone on the way home? Do you know that's going to happen? Seriously, you don't know that. And here's a scary thing that does happen a lot. But how many drunk drivers— some of you might know this. How often has a drunk driver drove drunk before they get caught? Anybody know what the number is? 20 times? It's in the 20s, typically. So if we're stopping a drunk driver, which is the right thing to do, the odds of the sexual assaults are actually higher. If Jesse gets Erin alone in a room that night, what are the odds something sexual is about to be attempted? On a 0 to 100, what are the odds? Yeah, most people say 90. Some people are like, it's 100 if they get alone in a room. So that odd is higher. So if somebody goes, well, I don't know it's going to be a sexual assault. Yeah, but who I am, Doesn't stand by to wait to find out afterward.