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(Lengthy, but worth the read. Must be posted as multi-part article)

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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.

In a year long 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.

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.

"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.

The officers involved in such wrongdoing represent a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands whose jobs are to serve and protect. But their actions have an outsized impact - miring departments in litigation that leads to costly settlements, crippling relationships with an already wary public and scarring victims with a special brand of fear.

"My God," J.L. said she thought as she eyed the officer's holstered gun, "he's going to kill me."

The AP does not name alleged victims of sexual assault without their consent, and J.L. declined to be interviewed. She was let go after the traffic stop without any charges. She reported her accusations immediately, but it was months before the investigation was done and the breadth of the allegations known.

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.

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.
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Nine states and the District of Columbia said they either did not decertify officers for misconduct or declined to provide information.

Of those that did release records, the AP determined that some 550 officers were decertified for sexual assault, including rape and sodomy, sexual shakedowns in which citizens were extorted into performing favors to avoid arrest, or gratuitous pat-downs. Some 440 officers lost their badges for other sex offenses, such as possessing child pornography, or for sexual misconduct that included being a peeping Tom, sexting juveniles or having on-duty intercourse.

The law enforcement officials in these records included state and local police, sheriff's deputies, prison guards and school resource officers; no federal officers were included because the records reviewed came from state police standards commissions. About one-third of the officers decertified were accused of incidents involving juveniles. Because of gaps in the information provided by the states, it was impossible to discern any other distinct patterns, other than a propensity for officers to use the power of their badge to prey on the vulnerable. Some but not all of the decertified officers faced criminal charges; some offenders were able to avoid prosecution by agreeing to surrender their certifications.

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.

Cases from across the country in just the past year demonstrate how such incidents can occur, and the devastation they leave behind.

In Connecticut, William Ruscoe of the Trumbull Police began a 30-month prison term in January after pleading guilty to the sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl he met through a program for teens interested in law enforcement. Case records detailed advances that began with explicit texts and attempts to kiss and grope the girl. Then one night Ruscoe brought her back to his home, put his gun on the kitchen counter and asked her to go upstairs to his bedroom. The victim told investigators that despite telling him no "what felt like 1,000 times," he removed her clothes, fondled her and forced her to touch him - at one point cuffing her hands.

In Florida, Jonathan Bleiweiss of the Broward Sheriff's Office was sentenced to a five-year prison term in February for bullying about 20 immigrant men into sex acts. Because the victims wouldn't testify, Bleiwess' plea deal revolved around false imprisonment charges, allowing him to escape sex offender status. Prosecutors said he used implied threats of deportation to intimidate the men.

And in New Mexico, Michael Garcia of the Las Cruces Police was sentenced last November to nine years in federal prison for sexually assaulting a high school police intern. At the time, he was in a unit investigating child abuse and sex crimes. The victim, Diana Guerrero, said in court that the assault left her feeling "like a piece of trash," dashed her dreams of becoming an officer, and triggered depression, nightmares and flashbacks.

"It had never occurred to me that a person who had earned a badge would do this to me or anybody else," said Guerrero, who is now 21 and agreed to her name being published. "I lost my faith in everything, everyone, even in myself."

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.

"You see officers throughout your career that deal with that power really well, and you see officers over your career that don't," said Oklahoma City Police Chief Bill Citty, who fired Holtzclaw just months after the allegations surfaced and called the case a troubling reminder that police chiefs need to be careful about how they hire and train officers.

The best chance at preventing such incidents is to robustly screen applicants, said Sheriff Russell Martin in Delaware County, Ohio, who served on an IACP committee on sex misconduct. Those seeking to join Martin's agency are questioned about everything from pornography use to public sex acts. Investigators run background checks, administer polygraph exams and interview former employers and neighbors. Social media activity is reviewed for clues about what a candidate deems appropriate, or red flags such as objectification of women.

Still, screening procedures vary among departments, and even the most stringent standards only go so far.

"We're hiring from the human race," Martin said, "and once in a while, the human race is going to let us down."
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In the predawn hours of June 18, 2014, J.L.'s report made its way to Oklahoma City sex crimes detective Kim Davis. By that afternoon, Miranda rights were being read to the suspect, an officer who had arrived out of the academy nearly three years earlier, a seemingly natural move for the son of a career policeman but one borne of deep disappointment.

Holtzclaw was a high school football star in Enid, Oklahoma, and a standout on a middling squad at Eastern Michigan University. He was a 6-foot-1, 246-pound leader to teammates who called him "Claw," and constantly focused on his ultimate goal of the NFL.

"He trained that way. He talked that way," said fellow linebacker Cortland Selman.

But the collegiate record for tackles Holtzclaw chased went unbroken, and the draft came and went.

He found traces of life on the field in his life on the beat, telling a reporter for his hometown paper that he enjoyed high-speed chases and once charged through two fences while pursuing a suspect on foot on a snow-slicked winter day. He hoped to eventually join the police gang squad.

The Oklahoma City Police Department said Holtzclaw had not received any prior discipline that resulted in a demotion or docked paycheck, but both the department and the state declined to release his full personnel record, citing state law making it confidential.

J.L.'s accusations made Davis and a fellow detective curious about an unsolved report filed five weeks earlier in which an unidentified officer was accused of stopping a woman and coercing her into oral sex.

According to pretrial testimony, the detectives reviewed the names of women Holtzclaw had come into contact with on his 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. shift and interviewed each one, saying they had a tip she may have been assaulted by an officer. Most said they had not been victimized but, among those who said they were, other links to Holtzclaw were found, Davis said in court. The GPS device on his patrol car put him at the scene of the alleged incidents, and department records showed he called in to check all but one of the women for warrants, the detective testified.

By the time the investigation concluded, the detectives had assembled a six-month narrative of alleged sex crimes they said started Dec. 20, 2013, with a woman taken into custody and hospitalized while high on angel dust. Dressed in a hospital gown, her right wrist handcuffed to the bedrail, the woman said Holtzclaw coerced her into performing oral sex, suggesting her cooperation would lead to dropped charges.

"I didn't think that no one would believe me," she testified at a pretrial hearing. "I feel like all police will work together."

All told, Holtzclaw faces 36 counts including rape, sexual battery and forcible oral sodomy.

One additional accuser who came forward after Holtzclaw's arrest later was charged with making a false report. Supporters of the former officer who congregate on social media express hope that others' claims will be proven false, too, and friends wear T-shirts that say "Free the Claw."

Earlier this year, while out on bond, Holtzclaw answered the door of his parents' Enid home, saying of the allegations: "I'm not going to make any comment about it." His attorney, Scott Adams, canceled an interview and did not respond to calls, emails and a letter.

Adams' line of questioning at the pretrial hearing suggests he will raise doubts about the accusers' credibility and portray investigators as having coaxed the women into saying they were attacked. Many of the women had struggled with drugs. Some had been prostitutes or have criminal records. Most lived in the same rundown swath of the city in sight of the state Capitol dome, and they all are women of color.

Many of their allegations are similar, with the women saying they were accused of hiding drugs, then told to lift their shirts or pull down their pants. Some claim to have been groped; others said they were forced into intercourse or oral sex.

The youngest accuser said Holtzclaw first approached her when she was with two friends who were arguing and he learned she had an outstanding warrant for trespassing. He let her go but found her again later that day, walking to her mother's house. She said he offered her a ride and then followed her to the front porch, reminding her of her warrant, accusing her of hiding drugs and warning her not to make things more difficult than they needed to be. She claims he touched her breasts and slid his hand into her panties before pulling off her shorts and raping her.

When it was over, the teen said he told her he might be back to see her again.

"I didn't know what to do," she testified at the pretrial hearing. "Like, what am I going to do? Call the cops? He was a cop."

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Victims of sexual violence at the hands of officers know the power their attackers have, and so the trauma can carry an especially crippling fear.

Jackie Simmons said she found it too daunting to bring her accusation to another police officer after being raped by a cop in 1998 while visiting Kansas for a wedding. So, like most victims of rape, she never filed a report. Her notions of good and evil challenged, she became enraged whenever she saw patrol cars marked "Protect and Serve."

"You feel really powerless," said Simmons, an elementary school principal in Bridgeport, Connecticut, who works with Pandora's Project, a support group for rape survivors.

Diane Wetendorf, a retired counselor who started a support group in Chicago for victims of officers, said most of the women she counseled never reported their crimes - and many who did regretted it. She saw women whose homes came under surveillance and whose children were intimidated by police. Fellow officers, she said, refused to turn on one another when questioned.

"It starts with the officer denying the allegations - 'she's crazy,' 'she's lying,'" Wetendorf said. "And the other officers say they didn't see anything, they didn't hear anything."
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In its 2011 report, the IACP recommended that agencies institute policies specifically addressing sexual misconduct, saying "tolerance at any level will invite more of the same conduct." The report also urged stringent screening of hires. But the agency does not know how widely such recommendations have been implemented.

John Firman, the IACP's research director, said the organization also is encouraging its chiefs to hire more women and minorities as a way to improve the environment inside departments.

"What you want is a culture that's dominated by a bunch of people that reflect the community," he said.

Experts said it isn't just threats of retaliation that deter victims from reporting the crimes, but also skepticism about the ability of officers and prosecutors to investigate their colleagues.

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?"

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Though initially out on bond, Holtzclaw has been jailed since July after letting the battery in his ankle monitor go dead.

While he and his attorneys have remained mostly silent on the accusations, he has offered glimpses of his life in online postings. A photo montage he shared showed him flexing his muscles, Eminem playing in the background. He wrote of God's blessings and copied Bible verses, and offered photos of him cuddling his dog. He wrote that he had maintained faith, that winners overcome and cowards run. He portrayed himself as David fighting Goliath.

"Behind these eyes and this big heart is pain," he wrote.

Most of Holtzclaw's accusers also have stayed silent outside of court. Most did not respond to requests from the AP to speak or cited fear or a desire for privacy, but two did agree to interviews.

One woman alleges Holtzclaw coerced her into giving him oral sex. She cried as she spoke, sitting on a dirty couch in a rundown apartment where a blanket attached to the wall with thumbtacks blocked the sunlight. She talked of how afraid she was to go to police, of how images of her alleged attack haunt her. Enveloped in fear, she said she slipped further into drugs.

"I was getting high, but I wasn't feeling," she said. "I was too upset to feel anything."

In the Oklahoma City neighborhood that prosecutors say served as Holtzclaw's hunting ground, a narrow ribbon of road twists through a canyon of untended growth littered with black bags of stinking trash. Locals call the spot Dead Man's Curve.

It's here that Syrita Bowen contends Holtzclaw took her on May 21, 2014, and told her she could submit to oral sex and intercourse or go to jail. In an interview, she said she was convinced it was the cruel joke of some hidden-camera show until he insisted he was serious. She had been jailed many times before, and knew the math: a 15-minute ride downtown, two hours to be booked, up to a day of waiting to move to a cell, hearings drawn out over weeks or months.

She figured she could give him what he wanted in six minutes.

"God forgive me," she said, "that was the easiest thing for me to do."

Bowen agreed to have her name published, and initially she offered a steely front, contending no fear or sadness lingered from her alleged encounter with Holtzclaw. But, before long, tears flowed.

She has known poverty and addiction and imprisonment, and said she was repeatedly raped by a relative as a little girl. The violation she alleges now doesn't even rank as the worst thing to ever happen to her. But she said she thinks about it daily. There are no nightmares, she said, but reminders come in other ways.

Patrol cars seem to pass more often than they did before. Sirens are more jarring. And when a man in uniform goes by, she wonders what might happen.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...x-crimes_5636133ae4b063179912afba?ir=Homepage
 
Syrita Bowen contends Holtzclaw took her on May 21, 2014, and told her she could submit to oral sex and intercourse or go to jail. In an interview, she said she was convinced it was the cruel joke of some hidden-camera show until he insisted he was serious. She had been jailed many times before, and knew the math: a 15-minute ride downtown, two hours to be booked, up to a day of waiting to move to a cell, hearings drawn out over weeks or months.

She figured she could give him what he wanted in six minutes.
Poor girl.

Outrageously disgusting pigs.
 
It's about friggin' time. These investigations by oversight entities are so long overdue it's embarrassing (not to mention insulting).

I did a search (unsuccessful) for an old case here in the early 80's where an evening shift Sgt. used to deliberately pull over attractive women for nothing and force them to go under a local overpass with him. It was dark, the road underneath it ran along a stretch of nasty, muddy river bank, and the weeds and overgrowth were so thick it was nearly impossible to see his cruiser parked under there with the lights off. Unfortunately, no one really thought much about it at the time b/c it was a well-known place for both single and married police officers to take their groupies, g/fs, b/fs or some of the working girls for sex while on duty.

The dept. fielded over a dozen complaints against this psycho/sociopath complete with pictures of the girls' injuries and their ER reports - everything from "alleged" kidnapping and physical violence charges through all the usual heinous sex crime charges and nothing was ever done about him until (you guessed it) he went too far and murdered one of them throwing her body in the river. Luckily, the mud was so thick and deep, and the water so shallow farther out from the bank that there was no current to carry her. It was also pitch dark and he'd taken off so fast he had no idea he'd missed the deeper water when he slung her body.

I just hope the attention-seeking nut jobs don't start creeping out of the woodwork for their 15 mins. of fame accusing innocent officers of misconduct b/c they're pissed they couldn't talk their way out of a ticket. As for the guilty ones? Throw them into the yard with the wolves.
 
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."

At least initially, this will for a fact be true. Cops protect their own and lash out against everyone else in situations like this, and then ask questions later. And i think a woman would have to be out of her fucking mind to come forward in a smaller town, especially a small town in the south. The officers/deputies in such towns are as dumb as they come and the backassward nature and ignorance of both law enforcement and the community at large can be fucking shocking. You think the support someone in a bigger area/city gets from friends/family/members of teh community is bad, it'd be an impenetrable wall of well wishes and protection in the majority of rural/suburban-rural Texas for example.

"He couldn't have done it, not only is he a cop but i went to school with him and our great great grandfathers were good friends, my uncle and his cousin are married, our kids play football together!". Dipshits.


A nurse swabbed her mouth.

??? Did she not spit or swallow? What good is a dna swab hours after blowing somebody? Remnants remain that long?


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.

That's just the articles in which he found what he was looking for. This guy prob looked at at least twice that many during his search. Over 10 thousand articles this man likely read through. His entire life was just him reading old news articles on the net. Good fucking lord. Makes what even the most bored and life-less folks here on dreamondemon do to kill some time look like nothin. I don't know if this is more impressive or pathetic.

William Ruscoe of the Trumbull Police began a 30-month prison term
The victim told investigators that despite telling him no "what felt like 1,000 times," he removed her clothes, fondled her and forced her to touch him - at one point cuffing her hands.


Michael Garcia of the Las Cruces Police was sentenced last November to nine years...sexually assaulting a high school police intern.

How do these guys avoid lengthy prison sentences? Fucking shocking. You'd think the system would be even more strict with them upon a guilty verdict, given how poorly it reflects on the city/state/justice system on the whole. Instead they slap em on the wrist it seems.


"It had never occurred to me that a person who had earned a badge would do this to me or anybody else," said Guerrero, who is now 21 and agreed to her name being published. "I lost my faith in everything, everyone, even in myself."

I hope she didn't lose out on the massive monetary civil judgment that no doubt should have been coming her way. Please tell me these victims who came forward ended up filing lawsuits against these cities/depts/counties.

Despite screaming "He raped me!" repeatedly to other officers present, she was accused of assaulting an officer and jailed for four days,

This is completely understandable. Suspects yelling all sorts of crazy shit and wild accusations is prob the norm. Makes sense cops wouldn't be phased by it. Common, run of the mill civilian trash criminals are a HUGE reason why cops are able to get away with this.

A photo montage he shared showed him flexing his muscles, Eminem playing in the background.

Just when you think his crimes couldn't get worse, you find out he listens to Eminem. I don't care whether he's guilty of rape or not, anyone who listens to that irritating, nasally voiced piece of shit needs to be locked up, if not outright put down.
 
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Update: They've got some pretty damning DNA evidence on top of the rest of the evidence against him. Of course, he's still denying everything. Time to lock this f*cker up and throw away the key. :rage:

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Holtzclaw is facing 36 charges, including six counts of first-degree rape. On Tuesday, the lead detective in the case testified that DNA from the 13th accuser, a 17-year-old runaway, was actually found inside and outside of the pants of Officer Holtzclaw.

Detective Kim Davis, meanwhile, testified that the DNA was from vaginal fluid.

The teen girl testified that Officer Holtzclaw found her out walking in the night, picked her up in her car and took her home, where he raped her right outside of the house. Her mother testified that Holtzclaw actually called the house later that night looking for the girl. The mother was so furious that she took a screenshot of the call, which she displayed in open court.
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Thirteen girls and women, none of whom know each other or have been given anything in exchange for their testimony, have all now testified that Officer Holtzclaw preyed on them in their vulnerable moments for his own perverse sexual gratification and exertion of power.

Without fail, using GPS and search records, detectives proved that each of the women were indeed confronted by Holtzclaw, that he searched the police database for their names and that he often drove them on strange paths, for lengths of time beyond what would be standard procedure.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...ltzclaw-assaulted-teen-girl-article-1.2452790
 
THIS MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF DIRTY SHIT ON A SKUNKS PUBES IS....GUILTY!!! So glad I have a bottle of wine to CELEBRATE!!!
:cigar::cigar::D:D
The women were teenagers and grandmothers. Most were living on the margins. All of them were black. And during a month-long trial that became a symbol of police predation, they formed a bleak parade of 13 witnesses who accused a formerOklahoma City officer of using his badge to coerce sex acts and rape.

On Thursday, after 45 hours of deliberation, a jury convicted Daniel Holtzclaw, 28, on five counts of rape and 13 other counts of sexual assault, including six of sexual battery, against eight of the women.

The convictions included four for first-degree rape, which carries a possible sentence of life in prison. He will appear in court on 21 January for sentencing.

Holtzclaw was cleared of a further 18 of the 36 charges he faced, including rape, sexual battery, burglary, indecent exposure and stalking.

His conviction is likely to be viewed as a key moment of accountability for law enforcement officers who abuse their position: out of thehundreds 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.



Many attributed the low visibility of the case to the profile of the victims: vulnerable women of color with troubled histories. Holtzclaw, police investigators found, methodically targeted black women with criminal records or a history of drug use or sex work. For all but one of his targets, the former officer used his position on the force to run background checks for outstanding warrants or other means by which to coerce sex.
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An advocate who watched the trial unfold said the allegations fit a familiar pattern. “Officers count on no one believing the victim if she reports,” said Diane Wetendorf, who runs a counseling group in Chicago for women who are victims of police abuse. “And [they] know that the word of a woman of color is likely to be worth even less than the word of a white woman to those who matter in the criminal justice system.”

Indeed, Holtzclaw’s choice of victims laid the groundwork for an aggressive defense. His attorney, Scott Adams, aggressively questioned his accusers about their marijuana use, drinking, thefts, and suspended driver’s licenses in an attempt to undermine their credibility.

In court and in pretrial testimony, however, the 13 accusers told broadly consistent stories about how Holtzclaw isolated them, assaulted them, and terrorized them into silence.

One woman accused Holtzclaw of driving her to a field, raping her in the back of his squad car, and leaving her there. “There was nothing that I could do,” she testified. “He was a police officer and I was a woman.”

Another of his victims, a 17-year-old girl, testified that Holtzclaw raped her on her mother’s front porch. She said he threatened her with an outstanding warrant for trespassing. “What am I going to do?” she asked. “Call the cops? He was a cop.”

Another woman said the former officer forced her to perform oral sex while she was under the influence of drugs and handcuffed to a hospital bed. Holtzclaw, the woman testified, implied that he could have her charges dropped in return. “I didn’t think that no one would believe me,” the womantestified in a pre-trial hearing. “I feel like all police will work together.”

Holtzclaw’s crimes took place over seven months in 2013 and 2014 while he worked the 4pm to 2am patrol. Oklahoma City law enforcement arrested Holtzclaw on 18 June 2014. The previous night, he had pulled over a 57-year-old daycare worker and molesting her during the traffic stop. Holtzclaw then ordered her to perform oral sex, his gun in plain view, she has testified.

The woman made an immediate report to the Oklahoma City sex crimes division. Detectives arrested Holtzclaw in the afternoon. Before long, the investigative team connected Holtzclaw with other reports of sexual abuse against unnamed officers. GPS evidence from his patrol caralso linked Holtzclaw to the alleged crimes.

Holtzclaw was fired from the force in January 2015.

During the trial, Holtzclaw did not contestthat he encountered the women, but he maintained his innocence. He had a dedicated contingent of online supporters using the hashtag #FreeTheClaw. The defense called just one witness, a former girlfriend of Holtzclaw’s who testified he never exhibited sexually aggressive or inappropriate behavior around her.

The verdict will surprise advocates who were steeling themselves for an acquittal.

Legal experts noted that Holtzclaw’s defense harnessed powerful stereotypes about rape victims. His attorney noted that his accusers waited months to report his crimes and that they were not “perfect victims” or “perfect accusers”. The case unfolded before an all-white jury. (Court documents indicateHoltzclaw is Asian or Pacific Islander.)

“These cases are so difficult to prosecute because the defense attorneys go after the victims’ credibility in court,” said Wetendorf. “In my experience working with victims of police abuse, officers do target vulnerable women, particularly drug addicts, alcoholics and prostitutes.

“They are confident that ‘no one will believe’ these victims. Where women of color are available as targets, they are even easier prey.”

Rachel Anspach, of the African American Policy Forum, considered it a a sign of progress that Holtzclaw’s case even went to trial. “Historically, we’ve seen the justice system hasn’t protected black women from sexual assault,” she said.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...rmer-oklahoma-city-police-officer-guilty-rape
 
In Oregon giving people polygraphs as part of the hiring process is illegal. I read a active in which one Oregon police chief says we vet them really well but we wish there was a way to identify the sexual deviants that slip through.
 
So glad he was found guilty but how is an all white jury fair? Perhaps fair isn't the right wording but I'm just surprised it would be all one race, regardless of which. I'd think a good mix would be more appropriate?
 
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So glad he was found guilty but how is an all white jury fair? Perhaps fair isn't the right wording but I'm just surprised it would be all one race, regardless of which. I'd think a good mix would be more appropriate?

I suspect that was the defense attorney's doing.... He may have made a point of getting rid of any prospective jurors who were black or from other minorities during jury selection. If he thought a white jury would be more sympathetic to his client, it would appear he made a serious miscalculation.
 
Some poor jail guard now has to sit outside this one douche's cell and stare at him.

He's suicidal, folks!
I think I would be too in his situation. He wrecked his career and life in the dumbest possible way. For a few power trip fucks. Damn, that is certainly not worth 30 years in prison. I wonder if he realizes now what an idiot and piece of shit he is?
 
Daniel Holtzclaw was a college football star, but when his dreams of the NFL didn't work out, he joined the Oklahoma City police. Now, he could spend the rest of his life in prison.

He sexually assaulted a series of women, until one brave victim said "Enough."

Jannie Ligons was the first to come forward after she was sexually assaulted last year.

"All I could think was that he was going to shoot me, he was going to kill me," Ligons said Friday. "He did things to me that I didn't think a police officer would do."

Holtzclaw, 29, sobbed uncontrollably Thursday night as he was convicted on 18 of 36 counts, including first-degree rape and sodomy.

Prosecutors said Holtzclaw targeted 13 African American women in the poorest parts of Oklahoma City over a six month period. In some cases, he specifically sought out women who had outstanding arrest warrants.





All 13 women testified at Holtzclaw's trial. Sharday Hill said she was arrested then taken to a hospital for detox, where Holtzclaw sexually assaulted her.

"I was scared. I felt like I had to do that," Hill told CBS News. "He's in control, he's the police, he has the badge. And, you know, I'm handcuffed to a bed."

Some of the victims described how he tried to buy their silence by offering to drop pending charges. Others said as women of color, they were afraid to speak out against an officer -- but Liggons was not.

"I have no record, I didn't do anything wrong. I was innocent," Ligons said. "He just picked the wrong lady to stop that night."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahoma-cop-convicted-of-rape-picked-the-wrong-lady/
 
For a few power trip fucks. Damn, that is certainly not worth 30 years in prison.


Ummm what? He RAPED 13 women while using his authority to hold them hostage. One of whom was not even 18 yet. That is not a few power fucks and it certainly deserves 230 years in prison EASY, should be more!
 
Ummm what? He RAPED 13 women while using his authority to hold them hostage. One of whom was not even 18 yet. That is not a few power fucks and it certainly deserves 230 years in prison EASY, should be more!
No, what I meant was for the satisfaction this sick fuck got, it wasn't worth it to him or anyone else that would think to do this to ruin their life for a power trip. I'm fine with his sentence. He cried, and I laughed, and that's not something I usually do in that situation. I'm not saying at all that he should have got off with a lighter sentence. Nope, no way!
 
People keep asking why they didn't come forward before and they said it over and over he was a cop.
That dill weed in South Carolina sexually assaulted a co worker and didn't shit happen so clearly the system isn't on their side.
ETA: I think they suspended him and made him apologize or some horse shit. I'm sure he felt very remorseful :rolleyes:
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Jurors had recommended that Daniel Holtzclaw be sentenced to 263 years in prison for preying on women in 2013 and 2014. District Judge Timothy Henderson agreed, said Holtzclaw will serve the terms consecutively and denied his request for an appeal bond.

Holtzclaw waived his right to remain in custody in the county jail for 10 days, instead opting to be taken directly to prison. Defense attorney Scott Adams said Holtzclaw will appeal.

"It is what it is," Adams said. "It wasn't a surprise."

Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater had strong words for Holtzclaw, who was convicted last month on 18 counts, including four first-degree rape counts as well as forcible oral sodomy, sexual battery, procuring lewd exhibition and second-degree rape. Holtzclaw was acquitted on 18 other counts.

"I think people need to realize that this is not a law-enforcement officer that committed these crimes. This is a rapist who masqueraded as a law-enforcement officer," Prater said after the sentencing. "If he was a true law enforcement officer he would have upheld his duty to protect those citizens rather than victimize them."
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Holtzclaw's attorney had described the former college football star as a model officer whose attempts to help the drug addicts and prostitutes he came in contact with were distorted. Adams also attacked the credibility of some of the women, who had arrest records and histories of drug abuse, noting that many didn't come forward until police had already identified them as possible victims after launching their investigation.

Holtzclaw's victims included a teenager and woman in her 50s. Three accusers delivered victim-impact statements Thursday, and at least one other was in the courtroom.

Jannie Ligons, whose complaint in June 2014 launched the investigation of Holtzclaw, said she has been under stress because of the case and the fear of being sexually assaulted again. "My daughter and sisters are frightful when a police car pulls up behind them," Ligons said.

The Associated Press does not identify victims of sex crimes without their consent, but she was among two women who spoke publicly about the case and agreed to be identified.

Another woman, who was 17 at the time of the assault, said her "life has been upside down" since Holtzclaw raped her on the front porch of her mother's home.

"It's been hard on my family. It's been hard on me," she told the court. "Every time I see the police, I don't even know what to do. I don't ever go outside, and when I do I'm terrified."

Several of Holtzclaw's victims have filed civil lawsuits against Holtzclaw and the city in state and federal court.

Thursday's hearing was delayed by a few hours as Holtzclaw and attorneys met with the judge over the defense's request for a new trial or evidentiary hearing, but after hearing testimony from another officer, Henderson rejected the request and moved on to witness statements.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-oklahoma-officer-sentenced-rape-sex-crimes-063548807.html
 
"I think people need to realize that this is not a law-enforcement officer that committed these crimes. This is a rapist who masqueraded as a law-enforcement officer," Prater said after the sentencing. "If he was a true law enforcement officer he would have upheld his duty to protect those citizens rather than victimize them."

Um nope, he was a cop. So dumb hearing this jackass try to shield the city from blame or responsibility. He WAS a cop, YOU fuckers hired him, YOU fuckers put a gun in his hand, shut up and accept the bad PR and the lawsuits coming your way.
 
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/21/us/oklahoma-city-officer-daniel-holtzclaw-rape-sentencing/index.html

The jury wanted 263 years and that's exactly what was handed down to the weeping, quivering, mass, Daniel Holtzclaw. He will be shaking just like so much jello covered by skin once he enters the doors that he knows he will never exit. One can only hope he is subjected to every kind of sexual assault he perpetrated on his victims and suffers the same fear, pain and emotional turmoil as his victims did x's 10 and on a daily basis. He who committed such acts will not be able to find empathy coming from any quarter as he raped these women while cloaked in a position of trust.

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From @gatekeeper link
Convicted rapist and former Oklahoma cop Daniel Holtzclaw's inmate file deleted from state DOC website as 'matter of security'
All traces of a convicted rapist — former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw — have been erased from the state’s online Department of Corrections inmate logs.
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No offenders matched a search for his name on the DOC website, although Watkins assured Holtzclaw has not left custody since his sentencing. There are about a dozen state institutions that could house Holtzclaw.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...aniel-holtzclaw-inmate-file-article-1.2515196
 
Pretty interesting development...Something pretty big has to be going on for a POS like this to override P.C. and get into the Witless Protection program for inmates.
 
Pretty interesting development...Something pretty big has to be going on for a POS like this to override P.C. and get into the Witless Protection program for inmates.
WTF causes shit like that?! Fucking disappears off the face of the planet!!
 
WTF causes shit like that?! Fucking disappears off the face of the planet!!

Pretty much. Wherever they're sending him he'll likely be housed under another name and given a new background/history. The only things I know of from working in the system that can constitute a physical change of housing to an undisclosed jail/prison location are a serious, credible threat of death or serious harm beyond the facility's control in which case a court order has to be issued (poss.b/c he's a cop, or he raped/harmed an inmate's relative/loved one, etc.), the inmate is turning state's evidence against one or more important, high profile crimes/criminals/corruption rackets, or the feds have gotten involved for some reason.

I've personally never dealt with it IME and don't know of any inmate cases in our state prisons where an inmate was/has had to be moved to another prison covertly that wasn't gang/mob-related. Maybe @Forensicwx has more/better information?
 
Thx @gatekeeper for the mention. I wish I could say I know how and why this kind of thing happens. I don't (bottom of the totem pole). I believe the courts are often involved, but here's what I do know.

I've seen this 3 times. And it was only when the person was in imminent danger, regardless of being in Segregation. When the security of the institution is at risk, decisions are made. I've chewed my nails down to the quick, because the air is thick, and you just know something is imminent.

I only know about two name changes because someone on my team transported the inmate, thus in processing them at the new facility under a new identity. It's very hush hush.

When attacks or violence breaks out, it isn't just the offender that is in danger. Everyone who responds, from officers to med staff, become collateral damage. So while the idea of 'prison justice' sounds tempting (of which I'm guilty of venting and rooting for myself) there are many innocent people involved who are required to intervene.

In reality, this man is a target. I'm glad they moved him, I'm glad the NY Daily News couldn't find him. Because the less the public, his fellow offenders and the media know about him, the safer the staff becomes.

It won't be a popular opinion, I know. I get it. But it is what it is. I would like to go home safely each morning.
 
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