Cops and sexual misconduct

[GarfieldtheCat]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...ommitting-sex-crimes_5636133ae4b063179912afba

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/fd1d...ds-officers-lose-licenses-over-sex-misconduct

Two seperate links in case you don't believe Huff Post.

In a yearlong investigation of sexual misconduct by U.S. law enforcement, The Associated Press uncovered about 1,000 officers who lost their badges in a six-year period for rape, sodomy and other sexual assault; sex crimes that included possession of child pornography; or sexual misconduct such as propositioning citizens or having consensual but prohibited on-duty intercourse.

Oops.

The number is unquestionably an undercount because it represents only those officers whose licenses to work in law enforcement were revoked, and not all states take such action. California and New York — with several of the nation's largest law enforcement agencies — offered no records because they have no statewide system to decertify officers for misconduct. And even among states that provided records, some reported no officers removed for sexual misdeeds even though cases were identified via news stories or court records.

Wow, so many states won't revoke their license....just WOW. So this is the tip of the iceberg, how many more cases are covered up? How many of these cops gets another police job elsewhere?

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.

So everyone says it happens, but as usual, cops cover it up and don't want to report on it, so no one even knows what the true numbers are.


Hmm....this sounds familiar, this is the same BS that the cops pull with killing people. So we have no way of knowing how many cops are killing people wrongly, and how many of them commit sexual crimes. Typical.

A 2011 International Association of Chiefs of Police report on sex misconduct questioned whether some conditions of the job may create opportunities for such incidents. Officers' power, independence, off-hours and engagement with those perceived as less credible combine to give cover to predators, it said, and otherwise admirable bonds of loyalty can lead colleagues to shield offenders.

Gee, go figure.....cops figure they are above the law and can do what they want. And the "thin blue line" will cover for them anyway. Never would have guessed that from all the videos of blatant police abuse that show up daily.

 

[Darwin333]

Out of those thousand cops that had their badges I wonder how many were brought up on charges and prosecuted?

Edit: Not to mention that rape very often goes unreported in the best of situations, throw in the offender being a cop with the possible repercussions and being better able to intimidate (along with their buddies) the victim into not coming forward. Just like the one case mentioned in the article, it wasn't until one woman came forward that 12 other previous instances were reported.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Out of those thousand cops that had their badges I wonder how many were brought up on charges and prosecuted?

Just those unlucky enough to have had a major news channel report on them.