I want people to realize…how truly common sexual abuses of power by police are. – Elizabeth Nolan Brown
You’ve probably noticed that though cops rape women on a regular basis, and always have since the first warlord called himself a “king” and recruited brutal thugs to enforce his whims with violence, the number of reports of such incidents has absolutely soared this year. Beside the usual “To Molest and Rape” feature (formerly “Above the Law“) and other related features such as “License To Rape” (rapists pretending to be cops and cops raping under the guise of “searching” or the like), “Droit du Seigneur” (cops pimping and otherwise sexually exploiting women), and “If Men Were Angels” (religious & other non-cop “authorities” coercing women into sex), we’ve had several other special features like “Morality Lessons”, “The Public Morals” and a previous extra edition of “To Molest and Rape” back in June…all chock full of cops raping people. And if you’ll look at my Links columns, you’ll note that “rapist cop of the week” is not an exaggeration; in a few weeks I’m going to count them up for my year-end column, and I expect the number to be well over 100. So it didn’t surprise me in the least when Liz Brown reported that…
Nearly 1,000 U.S. police officers lost their badges over sexual misconduct between 2009 and 2014, according to a new analysis from the Associated Press—which calls this number “unquestionably an undercount.” And around one-third of these incidents involved children or teenagers under 18-years-old, the news agency found. Since the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics [intentionally] doesn’t keep track, AP turned to state-by-state police decertification records. Forty-one states returned data on officers whose licenses were revoked for sexual assault or other forms of sexual misconduct. But among these, some “reported no officers removed for sexual misdeeds even though cases were identified via news stories or court records.” And California and New York—states with some of the largest law-enforcement agencies in America—were among the nine states (plus the District of Columbia) that either didn’t respond or did not revoke the licenses of officers fired for sex offenses…
“Unquestionably an undercount” is a gross understatement; 1000 in 6 years is only about 3/week, and given that for most of that period about two/week on average have been reported widely enough for me to catch them, the number has to be several times that high…and remember, it only includes the ones who were caught and fired, not the much larger number who either totally got away with it or were protected from consequences by the cop establishment. As Liz mentions later, “A Bowling Green State University analysis of officer-arrest data from 2005 and 2011 found sex-related cases were the third-most prevalent. A Cato Institute study of 2009 and 2010 data found sexual misconduct was the second most-common complaint against cops, behind excessive force…” She then goes on to mention Jacksonville, Florida cop Michael Eugene Williams’ arrest for child porn after a 16-year history of complaints which somehow never resulted in his being prosecuted or even fired until November of 2010, and this:
Milwaukee [cop] Dominique Heaggan-Brown…is accused of sexually assaulting an incapacitated man, taking naked photos of people without their consent, and trying to pay for sex. Heaggan-Brown also made headlines over the summer after fatally shooting…Sylville Smith as the man fled from a traffic stop, sparking protests around the city. Heaggan-Brown has been suspended from the Milwaukee Police Department…
The sickness of our society is spotlighted by the fact that Heaggan-Brown was fired for the sex charges but not for shooting a man in the back, similar to the way that so-called “sex offenders” are turned into pariahs but people convicted of murder and mayhem are not, no matter how horrifying their crimes. I’ve also noticed that rapist cops are raping more males lately, or else they’re being reported more; in addition to Heaggan-Brown there was this one:
A Salem [Massachusetts cop] who is the husband of the city’s police chief was [arrested]…after…[raping] a man in a station closet…Brian Butler was arraigned on charges of rape and indecent assault and battery…[after he raped] an intoxicated man who had been taken into protective [sic] custody in the early morning hours of Oct. 31…
A Gwinnett County [Georgia] sheriff’s deputy resigned after he was arrested…on aggravated child molestation and sodomy charges…Michael Lomax is accused of engaging in a sex act with a 13-year-old he met on Grindr…Thirteen-year-olds can’t consent, even if they seek you out on Grindr…It’s…refreshing to note that the sheriff…didn’t try and equivocate on behalf of his deputy. Part of the reason may be that Gwinnett County has seen a surprising number of its deputies – six, counting Lomax – arrested in the past five years. Of the six, four were jailers accused of [raping] inmates…Duone Clark, who was charged with [raping] a transgender inmate, was sent to prison in 2014…
And this one, which is highly unusual:
…[in] Michigan…a man who served time at…Parnall [prison] claims that a baby-mad female prison counselor with whom he fathered a child used him as “a virtual sex slave, demanding sexual gratification at her whim”…Steven Moerman, was imprisoned on drug charges and receiving counseling for undisclosed mental-health issues. Now out on parole, he’s suing the Michigan Department of Corrections, prison officials, and Gov. Rick Snyder over what he claims was repeated rape by prison counselor Susan Lee Clingerman…whom he says was undergoing fertility treatments in order to conceive a child with him…Moerman claims prison officials knew what was happening or should have known because another prison counselor acted as a lookout for Clingerman—who was banned from prison property in September 2014 and fired the following January…Clingerman claims she was having a consensual sexual relationship with Moerman, who fathered the child she gave birth to in April 2015…but…prisoners cannot legally consent to sex with prison employees because of the inherent power imbalance. Thus, any prison guard, counselor, or other employee who has sex with a prisoner, no matter how theoretically willing that prisoner is, opens themselves up to liability for sexual assault. Clingerman has already…[plead] guilty to a felony charge of misconduct in office as part of a deal that allowed her to stay off the sex-offender registry…
I wish there were some sort of pithy conclusion I could close with, but there isn’t; as long as violent, unaccountable thugs are given virtually limitless power over others to “enforce” moronic dictates against consensual behavior handed down by megalomaniac sociopaths with too much time on their hands, this will never stop or even be reduced in even the most minimal fashion.
