While it's no longer news that some law enforcement officers abuse the
power that comes with the badge, the numbers revealed in a new
Associated Press report are
shocking: a thousand officers lost their badges in a six-year period
for rape, sexual assault, possession of child pornography and
propositioning citizens. In his investigation, reporter Matt Sedensky found that the reported rate is much lower than what's actually happening.
The investigation started with a single case in Oklahoma of an officer with assaults against 13 women, which spurred Sedensky to investigate whether these kinds of egregious crimes were happening elsewhere. "There's really no reliable data on police misconduct, so we had to go state to state trying to piece this together," Sedensky says.
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The investigation started with a single case in Oklahoma of an officer with assaults against 13 women, which spurred Sedensky to investigate whether these kinds of egregious crimes were happening elsewhere. "There's really no reliable data on police misconduct, so we had to go state to state trying to piece this together," Sedensky says.
http://kut.org/post/investigation-reveals-police-sexual-misconduct-raises-questions-about-cop-arrests