A Washington Post investigation found hundreds of police officers have sexually exploited kids.
The Washington Post obtained thousands of court filings, police records and other documents to report on law enforcement officers accused of crimes involving child sexual abuse. Read the findings of our investigation, Abused by the Badge.
Information about some of the officers, including whom they worked for, what they were convicted of and any comments they provided, appear in this key.
The Post tried to contact them and the lawyers who represented them in their criminal cases. Reporters requested comments from the law enforcement agencies that once employed the officers. Some responses were edited for length and clarity.
The convictions are listed as they appear in court records or were confirmed by prosecuting agencies. They may not be reflective of all conviction charges. If an officer had both state and federal cases, the federal case is listed.
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It just goes to show that being a police officer and putting on a uniform doesn’t make a righteous person.
Under that badge is someone who is just as fallible as you and me.
Albeit they should be held more accountable than you and me because they are sworn to serve and protect and trusted by the public to help prevent crime, not produce crime.
Truth is, they are no different than anyone else-they put their pants one leg at a time just like you and me.
First point, the registry could’ve prevented these how again? Oh wait, it couldn’t.
Second point, again, people in positions of trust.
That’s all…
40% of police officers convicted of child sex abuse do not get prison time. Does anyone know how this compares to people not police officers convicted of child sex abuse?
Instead of doing compliance checks on registrants law enforcement should do checks on themselves. Law enforcement and government officials consider us ” dangerous” It looks like the danger is staring them in the mirror. More examples of folks not on the registry to help knock down the registry.
Regarding the second source article:
Specific protections for these people in this line of work that puts them above the general population when it comes to this by those who feel they deserve this protection for whatever reasons and those whose hiring practices need to be revised. They all take are of each other at that level beyond the general population. Favoritism at its core.
1 in 10? That is double or more (depending on the stat source) then those who are convicted and then repeat another sex offense. Sad for those who have access with trust by those they are supposed to help.
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.”
Cops who commit sex offenses can keep their job or move to another department. Meanwhile anyone else is either unemployed/underemployed, homeless or can’t live where they want, forced to register, and have compliance checks by those who abuse their power.
1 in 10 are charged with sex crimes. That alone is double or more, depending on the stat source you read, then those who are convicted and then repeat another sex offense. That’s just crazy.
I read this article on Apple News and didn’t really know how to react. I felt distain for both the officers and the system at the same time.
At some point some news outlet should do the evolution of sex offense legislation. Why??
At one point in this country’s history, say till the 1900’s a female could consent to sex or marry as young as 13 years old. Suddenly that whole dynamic changed because it was believed that females that age were children. So for the first 150 years of this nation females over 13 could marry or consent and for the last 100 they were all of the sudden children yet the scientific biology of females has remained consistent.
When a news outlet does an “expose” on this part of the issue I’ll either be dead and gone or fall out of my chair when I read it.