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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 09:48 PM Feb 2016

2 Los Angeles officers charged with raping women on duty

Source: Amanda Lee Myers, Associated Press

2 Los Angeles officers charged with raping women on duty

Amanda Lee Myers, Associated Press

Updated 7:12 pm, Wednesday, February 17, 2016

LOS ANGELES (AP) — While one Los Angeles police officer acted as a lookout in the front seat of a departmental car, a 19-year-old woman working as a drug informant was forced to perform oral sex on his partner in the back seat after being told, "You have to do what the police tell you to do," the teenager said in a federal court filing.

Another woman, also working as a drug informant, said the same two officers each forced her to have sex with them twice after threatening her with jail time.

Two other women told eerily similar stories.

On Wednesday, prosecutors announced that veteran Officers James Nichols and Luis Valenzuela had been arrested and charged with repeatedly raping the four women over a three-year period, mostly while they were on duty.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/2-Los-Angeles-officers-charged-with-raping-women-6837360.php

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2 Los Angeles officers charged with raping women on duty (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 2016 OP
Awful. Stuart G Feb 2016 #1
oklahoma has la beat on officers raping women mgmaggiemg Feb 2016 #2
More good cops: Feeling the Bern Feb 2016 #3
Scary stuff. And they had been working for 15 and 18 years as LAPD officers. C Moon Feb 2016 #4
"To Protect and Serve" bemildred Feb 2016 #5
kick Blue_Tires Feb 2016 #6
The hiring practices for cops has to change GummyBearz Feb 2016 #7

mgmaggiemg

(869 posts)
2. oklahoma has la beat on officers raping women
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 10:08 PM
Feb 2016

but hey my city has you beat on officer raping women then chopping them into pieces and stuffing them in luggage and dumping them in the ditch off the hwy....

 

GummyBearz

(2,931 posts)
7. The hiring practices for cops has to change
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 01:38 PM
Feb 2016

Right now the majority of cops we are hiring are the type that just want others to "obey my authority!!!". The job description is supposed to be "protect and serve". Yet PDs have been eliminating candidates that score high in empathy and IQ on tests... and this is the result.

Hold cops accountable, sentence them just like everyone else, kick out the bad ones, get in good ones. FFS, this is fixable if we just do common sense things

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