Update: a lawsuit was filed on behalf of Charnesia Corley in Federal Court in February 2016. Corley is the woman discussed in this thread, who was stripped and vaginally-probed by officers in a gas station driveway.
No news of the three officers involved being on trial for forcible rape, alas.
The really bad news: cops use their power and opportunity to sexually abuse people a lot. All the time. There's a report from the AP that says they dug into this and found 550 cops that lost their licenses/badges because they were busted for sexual assault on the job.
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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.
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This was 550 cases found in records from 2009-2014. Doesn't seem like so many? But how many cop perpetrators wind up getting busted to the level of losing their license? Given the 'blue-wall-of-silence' thing, the strong financial incentive for jurisdictions to cover up, etc, etc. One in 10? One in 100? There's no estimate about cops in particular, but advocates estimate only 9 out of 100 rapists are prosecuted in general. So for
cops, and including lesser sexual assaults as well as bodily penetration (rape), I'd say 1 in 100 is likely a fair guess. So if we have 550 busted cops, we very likely have 50,000 or more incidents.
I set a google alert--will let everyone know of news in this particular case.
Link to report of lawsuit:
http://www.chron.com/houston/article...ed-6839927.php
Link to AP report on police sexual assault:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/fd1d4...sex-misconduct