In 2012, anger erupted on the streets of Delhi following the violent rape and murder of a young woman. The scale of the protests, the extent of the media coverage, and the intensity of the public’s opprobrium of the police and the administration of Delhi, was unprecedented. This paper argues that these events had a measurable impact on the reporting of crimes against women – rape and other sexual assaults – in Delhi. The sweeping public debates may have lessened the stigma typically associated with reporting such crimes. Further, an intense media focus on how the authorities in Delhi were handing these complaints, may have provided women of Delhi greater confidence to report these crimes. Using the synthetic control method, we estimate the impact of the 2012 incident on the reporting of crimes against women in Delhi. Our estimates show a significant increase in crime reporting in Delhi relative to a combination of other states and federally administered areas in India that are used to construct a counterfactual Delhi. We suggest that nearly all of this is a consequence of a greater willingness to report such crimes rather than the result of improvements in law and order and policing. While reported crimes increased, the convictions rate did not change significantly.