Nails Nathan: “The Post identified at least 1,800 state and local law enforcement officers who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022.” www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

“The Post identified at least 1,800 state and local law enforcement officers who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022.” www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Abused by the badgewww.washingtonpost.com Hundreds of police officers in the United States have sexually abused children, a Post investigation found. In many cases, the officers have avoided prison time.

“The Post surfaced cases in which officers were accused in police reports of sexual contact with minors but were charged only with non-sex crimes such as simple assault or official misconduct.”

“Despite GPS and body cameras, patterns of abusive officers — repeatedly returning to a child’s home, giving children rides or bringing kids to police stations — sometimes went undetected for weeks, months or even years.”

Take down the Catholic Church and another rises to take its place…

who covers for someone like that? rhetorical question - but seriously, it's so gross and appalling - why would your instinct not be to beat the shit out of them and book them? perverse system.

Because some* people think some* kids are not worth protecting.

this reply just breaks my heart - because it's true, and it is monstrous

Recently saw stories about Nestlé adding sugar to baby formula in poor countries and a tech company training their AI on photos of children in Brazil from parents' social media without their consent. Add what is excused by some in Gaza and Sudan right now. Even globally, this is true and monstrous

Cops have the extra protection that they can shoot people who narc on them.

Because qualified immunity won't cover it.

So not Drag Queens?

Those are the ones actually charged and reported in the media

How much larger of a percentage are abusers in the police force vs overall population? The job must draw people that would want authority to commit these acts.

that 40% rate of domestic abusers on cop forces that's the admitted number the hiring bias leaning towards stupid and brutish is intentional, the draw of these people is on purpose

Gift article link if it does not open up. wapo.st/3KCVHYa

Abused by the badgewapo.st Hundreds of police officers in the United States have sexually abused children, a Post investigation found. In many cases, the officers have avoided prison time.

It’s not the paywall. The infographics they added to that article is simply breaking it, even with Adblock and reader view disabled. Archive.is got some of it but not every section.

archive.is

Add to the fact that the police academy is barely 5 months. You have to go through longer training to be a mortician than you do a cop.

yep, not too much training involved in "assault the vulnerable and defenseless" lots of them are just turning their passions into a paid career

1800 out of what… hundreds of thousands? seems like the percentage you would expect in the general population for abusers. That isn’t the big issue. The issue is they are PROTECTED by the badge. Only 1 in 10 faced any charges.

Correction, those 1800 are the ones charged. Elsewhere in the article (which doesn’t want to load, even for subscribers) they estimate 1/10 were charges. So that’s maybe 18000, still within expected probability for the general population. But again, the problem is most bad cops don’t face charges.

I wonder if they are Southern Baptist. www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/fe...

After Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Comingwww.christianitytoday.com The Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News collect 380 allegations spanning 20 states in an unprecedented look at sexual misconduct across the denomination.

…and right here in Boston: nypost.com/2022/04/26/e...

Ex-Boston police union boss pleads guilty to child rape, abuse chargesnypost.com The former head of Boston’s police union was sentenced to up to 13 years behind bars after he admitted he raped and sexually abused six children.

Sorry to say but the US isn’t just a failed but even more so a totally fucked up society. But then again nothing else to expect from a pure capitalistic system like the American one.

No more so than any other society, even less so than some.

That's pretty scary. Similar in the UK with Met Officers. Power corrupts.

The corrupted are attracted to power.

🤬 ACAB 🤬

It's staggering just how deeply ingrained this type of abuse appears to be. How is it possible that it's taken centuries to surface this behaviour and how is it possible that it's not been eradicated root and branch by now? What's it going to take to stop this once and for all, forever?

And they want to give police immunity?

Look at all those drag queens... Oh wait.

Police unions enable the predators and criminals.

assuming 1 instance per cop (which is a wild underestimate; most sexual predators are serial offenders), that amounts to once every 2.8 days a cop sexually abuses a child

Fake news!!!! Too many white faces for it to be true, we don't do things like that. The police photographer must have used a very strong flash to make all these black and asians look whiter.