i’m linking the news articles shared by andi zeisler in her twitter thread below:
US police officers charged with more than 400 rapes over 9 years, research says
"A 2015 investigation by the Buffalo News, based on a national review of media reports and court records over a 10-year period, concluded that an officer is accused of an act of sexual misconduct at least every five days."
Report: NYPD Has Systematically Undercounted Rapes In NYC For Years. “As a result of this discrepancy, the police department has underreported rapes by 38 percent over a recent four-and-a-half period...”
"[O]ne study surveying almost 1,000 youth in New York City found that two out of five young women had been sexually harassed by police officers."
NYPD police officers accused of raping drunk woman found not guilty. "After being called to the victim's building....Moreno and Mata returned to the accuser's apartment three times during the night in question in December 2008 without calling it in."
Two NYPD detectives accused of raping teen in their custody won't get jail time. "The detectives — Eddie Martins, 39, and Richard Hall, 34 — were accused in 2017 of raping a teenage girl they took into custody for marijuana possession. She was 18 at the time of the incident..."
Daniel Holtzclaw: former Oklahoma police officer assaulted and raped *at least* 13 women over a period of seven months. "Out of the hundreds of police officers terminated for sexual abuse in recent years, only a small number faced criminal charges and even fewer were convicted. And black women are especially liable to be their targets."
Story of the NYPD cop who was making plans to abduct, rape, murder, and eat multiple women and a whole bunch of people were like "okay but maybe we're being too harsh in assuming he's *dangerous*"
In Secretive Court Hearing, NYPD Cops Who Raped Brooklyn Teen in Custody Get No Jail Time
Bronx cop accused of sleeping with 15-year-old prostitute acquitted of sex abuse charges
A New York police officer called to help a drunken woman get home safely instead raped her as she lay face down in her bed, semiconscious and covered in vomit while his partner acted as a lookout
Police in many states could legally have sex with a person in custody — until a N.Y. rape allegation. “[Chambers] claimed that both [detectives] forced her to perform oral sex and that Martins raped her.”
How survivors of sexual violence are failed by the bail system
Ohio Cop Who Shot Donna Dalton Nine Times Indicted On Kidnapping, Rape Charges
Two NYPD cops accused of raping a drunken woman as she lay face down in her bed, semiconscious and covered in vomit, made a fake 911 call so they could return to the victim's East Village apartment
More than 13,000 rape kits remain untested in Florida, officials say
Minneapolis Police Admit to Discovering 1,500 Untested Rape Kits, Spanning Over 30 Years, Found in Storage
A former Westminster police officer was sentenced last month to 90 days in jail and four years of probation after he was accused of raping a vulnerable woman while on duty.
and this is only the tip of the iceberg
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