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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Flashing lights pierced the black of night, and the big white letters made clear it was the police. The woman pulled over was a daycare worker in her 50s headed home after playing dominoes with friends. She felt she had nothing to hide, so when the Oklahoma City officer accused her of erratic driving, she did as directed.
She would later tell a judge she was splayed outside the patrol car for a pat-down, made to lift her shirt to prove she wasn't hiding anything, then to pull down her pants when the officer still wasn't convinced. He shined his flashlight between her legs, she said, then ordered her to sit in the squad car and face him as he towered above. His gun in sight, she said she pleaded "No, sir" as he unzipped his fly and exposed himself with a hurried directive.
"Come on," the woman, identified in police reports as J.L., said she was told before she began giving him oral sex. "I don't have all night."
The accusations are undoubtedly jolting, and yet they reflect a betrayal of the badge that has been repeated time and again across the country.
_________________"It's happening probably in every law enforcement agency across the country," said Chief Bernadette DiPino of the Sarasota Police Department in Florida, who helped study the problem for the International Association of Chiefs of Police. "It's so underreported and people are scared that if they call and complain about a police officer, they think every other police officer is going to be then out to get them."
Even as cases around the country have sparked a national conversation about excessive force by police, sexual misconduct by officers has largely escaped widespread notice due to a patchwork of laws, piecemeal reporting and victims frequently reluctant to come forward because of their vulnerabilities — they often are young, poor, struggling with addiction or plagued by their own checkered pasts.
In interviews, lawyers and even police chiefs told the AP that some departments also stay quiet about improprieties to limit liability, allowing bad officers to quietly resign, keep their certification and sometimes jump to other jobs.
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[More After the Break]
On a checkerboard of sessions on everything from electronic surveillance to speed enforcement, police chiefs who gathered for an annual meeting in 2007 saw a discussion on sex offenses by officers added to the agenda. More than 70 chiefs packed into a room, and when asked if they had dealt with an officer accused of sexual misdeeds, nearly every attendee raised a hand. A task force was formed and federal dollars were pumped into training.
Eight years later, a simple question — how many law enforcement officers are accused of sexual misconduct — has no definitive answer. The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, which collects police data from around the country, doesn't track officer arrests, and states aren't required to collect or share that information.
To measure the problem, the AP obtained records from 41 states on police decertification, an administrative process in which an officer's law enforcement license is revoked. Cases from 2009 through 2014 were then reviewed to determine whether they stemmed from misconduct meeting the Department of Justice standard for sexual assault — sexual contact that happens without consent, including intercourse, sodomy, child molestation, incest, fondling and attempted rape.
___________________Milwaukee Police Officer Ladmarald Cates was sentenced to 24 years in prison in 2012 for raping a woman he was dispatched to help. Despite screaming "He raped me!" repeatedly to other officers present, she was accused of assaulting an officer and jailed for four days, her lawyer said. The district attorney, citing a lack of evidence, declined to prosecute Cates. Only after a federal investigation was he tried and convicted.
It's a story that doesn't surprise Penny Harrington, a former police chief in Portland, Oregon, who co-founded the National Center for Women in Policing and has served as an expert witness in officer misconduct cases. She said officers sometimes avoid charges or can beat a conviction because they are so steeped in the system.
"They knew the DAs. They knew the judges. They knew the safe houses. They knew how to testify in court. They knew how to make her look like a nut," she said. "How are you going to get anything to happen when he's part of the system and when he threatens you and when you know he has a gun and ... you know he can find you wherever you go?"
First found on RT - https://www.rt.com/usa/320437-police-officers-sexual-misconduct/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
A search for verification found this - http://bigstory.ap.org/article/fd1d4d05e561462a85abe50e7eaed4ec/ap-hundreds-officers-lose-licenses-over-sex-misconduct
RT is a short read, the AP story is a wall of text. The WOT is worth reading because it is eye opening, and because it helps to justify statements that I've made about cops in the past.
Again - probably 85% of all cops are "good guys". But, the system attracts the bad guys. And, the good guys, being indoctrinated into the system, tend to want to protect their "brothers".
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday November 10 2015, @03:36AM
Shocking. Revolting.
Careful here. There be dragons.
This strikes me as the typical 2½ wave feminist hit job. Yet it's the perfect storm with what we know from video evidence about police abuses.
Mod me down, but I'm going to question this story. I might have believed it if the girl in question had been a young hottie (somewhat like me… nolol, and I'm not really that young any more either). Isn't that how these things are supposed to go?
She is one of 13 women who say they were victimized by the officer, a former college football standout named Daniel Holtzclaw. The fired cop, 28, has pleaded not guilty to a host of charges, and his family posted online that "the truth of his innocence will be shown in court." Each of his accusers is expected to testify in the trial that begins Monday, including one who was 17 when she said the officer pulled down her pink cotton shorts and raped her on her mother's front porch.
But on a June night last year, it was J.L.'s story that unleashed a larger search for clues.
A nurse swabbed her mouth. A captain made a report. And a detective got to work.
And…?
Not that I doubt it.
What a conflict in sympathies and antipathies.
Victims included unsuspecting motorists, schoolchildren ordered to raise their shirts in a supposed search for drugs, police interns taken advantage of, women with legal troubles who succumbed to performing sex acts for promised help, and prison inmates forced to have sex with guards.
The AP's findings, coupled with other research and interviews with experts, suggest that sexual misconduct is among the most prevalent type of complaint against law officers. Phil Stinson, a researcher at Bowling Green State University, analyzed news articles between 2005 and 2011 and found 6,724 arrests involving more than 5,500 officers. Sex-related cases were the third-most common, behind violence and profit-motivated crimes. Cato Institute reports released in 2009 and 2010 found sex misconduct the No. 2 complaint against officers, behind excessive force.
Here's where you mod me down. An Amazon woman knows her natural rights and would never submit to such a thing, even if it meant bodily harm or death. Repeat after me, AWs (American Women), and learn what you need to know, especially for the coming shitstorm: “Am I being detained?” “Am I free to go?” Become powerful, not weak victims.
Give me liberty, or give me death. This speaks to the failures of feminism to make women aware of their natural rights. How much greater the scandal if the day care worker had allowed herself to be beaten and sent to the hospital! We only hear of these things now.
It's sad that Schrödinger's rapist also wears a uniform, but that is reality, Schrödinger's natural rights rapist comes in many forms, and she doesn't only come for men or women, especially with TPP, TTIP, and TISA looming.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 10 2015, @03:49AM
This has nothing to do with feminism. This isn't a bunch of over politicized college SJWs falsely accusing a frat.
This is 100% failure of the police to police their own. Every officer that allows this sort of thing to happen without attempting to put a stop to it is an accessory after the fact in my book. That includes DAs who either decline to prosecute or do such a shitty job in front of the grand jury that there are no charges. That includes Judges that look the other way for a "great officer." All of them just as guilty of rape as the actual perp.
Lock them in prison with "Dirty Cop" tattooed on their forehead.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 10 2015, @04:13AM
> This has nothing to do with feminism.
kuronei has her own issues that result in her seeing everything as an attack by evil feminists. She's like that systemd spammer who used to try to make every single story into a systemd story. At some point you decide that not only has she lost the benefit of the doubt, she deserves the indictment of the doubt.
That is what mental illness looks like. It is unfortunate that there is nothing we here can do to help her.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 10 2015, @03:27PM
I'm confused. Is systemd an attack by evil feminists, or are evil feminists caused by systemd?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 10 2015, @06:06PM
Its a self-reinforcing system with a chicken-and-egg problem. Nobody is sure which came firsts, feminazis or systemd, but as soon as they both appeared feminazis were using systemd to attack and destroy the patriarchy by raping it (forcibly inserting it) into the neckbeards' favorite *nix systems to force PC on them and drive them away from open source development, and as systemd spread it began creating new SJWs to join the fight in spreading systemd and creating more PC. Soon the whole thing will come together, with SJW spread everywhere and a PC on every corner, with feminazis ruling over everything.
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday November 10 2015, @03:52AM
In before #blacklivesmatter. These victims live to tell their harrowing stories.
TPP, TTIP, and TISA will make it all the worse.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by fishybell on Tuesday November 10 2015, @04:00AM
Seriously? Victim-blaming is not a solution. Stopping, prosecuting, and preventing further crimes is the answer. This has nothing to with feminism. If the story was about a cop degrading and raping a man, would you say the same thing? Well, guess what? That [thefreethoughtproject.com] happens [ign.com] too [enca.com].
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 10 2015, @07:07AM
Victim-blaming can be part of the solution, though 'education-and-self-confidence-before-becoming-a-victim' might be a better term. If 20% of the people bit the dick off their attackers I think you'll see a reduction in oral rapes. The victims need the self-control to fight back instead of whining and pleading. They're weak, or at least not strong. Yes, it takes a ton of control to fight back against an armed person with power over you, but at that point you'll also have the most power over them. If your flight or fight response says to sit there and take it I have no problem calling you weak. It's a good thing to know about yourself so you can correctly prepare for a future event. Personally I freeze up when injured, and knowing that helps me avoid and overcome it. I used to be very weak, but I'm a lot stronger now. It's something you can learn, so we can blame the victim for not spending the time to learn what should be considered a life skill. Not blaming them for getting rapped, but blaming them for not fighting back.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday November 10 2015, @10:14AM
> If 20% of the people bit the dick off their attackers I think you'll see a reduction in oral rapes.
I doubt it. People who commit that sort of crime aren't looking up dick-biting statistics on wikipedia before they go and do it. They are people with little to no empathy and poor impulse control: They see something, they want it, they take it. Consequences and potential consequences are the last things on their mind, because they convince themselves that they are invulnerable.
Having said that, I suppose you might see a reduction in repeat offences if they bit it right off. Either way, I applaud anyone who does bite. Bonus points if you can get the balls off too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 10 2015, @03:02PM
At least it would help with repeat offenders.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 10 2015, @06:10PM
I know, right? If only that dumb bitch had taken personal responsibility and not let that cop shove his dick into her mouth at gunpoint. She should've manned up and pulled herself up by her bootstraps, then she'd no longer be in the right position to take a dick in her cock-holster.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Zz9zZ on Tuesday November 10 2015, @04:44AM
Yeaaaah, a big WTF to your post. "And...? Not that I doubt it. What a conflict in sympathies and antipathies."
Victims are mad, family is caring. That is the most typical situation possible, family never wants to believe horrible things especially with the possibly guilty party saying they didn't do it. I think the research on sexual crimes from officers is enlightening enough, regardless of whether Daniel Holtzclaw is guilty.
Its great to empower people, but sometimes that might not be enough. Her standing up for herself might have helped her pride, and yours apparently, but could easily have ended in a visit to the ER from physical abuse AND rape.
Questioning the news is a good thing, but you need evidence to go as far as you did. Humans are just that, human. We can't see everything, we're not psychic, so a lot of these abuses happen right under the noses of everyone around. If any cops believe their fellow officers are being framed, then guess what? There is a perfect solution! BODY CAMERAS!
But to date it seems that cameras are better at protecting the people than the officers... Keep your skeptical mind, but at least follow the correct trends until the facts are strong enough to show otherwise.
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 3, Interesting) by fishybell on Tuesday November 10 2015, @03:45PM
I do believe that is the point. Protecting the officers is a knock-on effect which is used to convince officers to wear and use them (a sizable amount of cameras need to be manually turned on, and guess what? in cases of misconduct, they often aren't).