A deputy from Garvin County, Oklahoma has been fired for disguising an inmate as a fellow officer to aid him in his duties. The breach of conduct, reminiscent of a Bugs Bunny cartoon more than anything else, occurred on April 11, 2016. The deputy was fired April 14.
In her mucho hyped Elle interview released online Tuesday, Beyoncé discusses her “Formation” video and the overblown anti-police controversy that surrounded it, as well as feminism and, of course, her new clothing line Ivy Park.
In September 2014, a female student at Thornton Fractional North High School near Chicago was sexually assaulted in the boys’ locker room. Although the principal and his supervisors learned of the assault, the girl and the alleged perpetrator were kept in the same class and went on the same field trips. The school…
Jane O’Meara Sanders—social worker, academic, wife of Bernie—took a trip yesterday to see the infamous “tent city” jail where Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has somehow been allowed to house inmates since 1993. Arpaio says he gave her a tour; Sanders says the sheriff “showed up unexpectedly” while she was there…
For years, we’ve been hearing about a backlog of rape kits plaguing cities—in January 2011, the Los Angeles Police Department made its way through over 6,000 untested kits; in 2013, Memphis, Tennessee somehow lost almost 15,000 kits; multimillion dollar budgets have been put toward ameliorating the backlog in cities…
Following Beyoncé’s very good, very black performance at the Super Bowl, a collection of people with little to do and even less sense announced that they would be holding an anti-Beyoncé rally at the NFL headquarters.
New York City is denying responsibility after two Manhattan special victims unit detectives—Officer Lukasz Skorzewski and Lt. Adam Lamboy—took a rape victim on a 10-hour bar crawl and brought her back to a hotel room where she woke up being groped by Skorzewski.
Last week in South Gate, California, Beatriz Paez was out for a walk when she saw a group of US marshals arresting a group of bikers on the sidewalk. She pulled out her cellphone to record the incident. Paez told The Los Angeles Times that once the marshals became aware of her smartphone they tried to block her view,…
Hundreds of UK police officers were disciplined (and some terminated) over improper use of social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter.
A plan to make the physical requirements more difficult for aspiring female US Marines by requiring full pull-ups has been postponed indefinitely. And as it stands now, women interested in becoming lady Leathernecks must meet lower physical standards than their male counterparts. But for jobs that require brute…
Yesterday, the Obama administration announced that the definition of rape will finally be updated to include shit you already probably thought should've been in there. This is important because crime rates as reported by the FBI are used to determine how much money is allotted to anti-rape initiatives and victims'…
Last week, photos of New Mexico State Police officer Bert Lopez having sex in uniform on the hood of a Honda went viral, and now he's been fired. Authorities say the encounter itself wasn't criminal, but wouldn't say whether or not Lopez was on duty at the time. Lopez has 30 days to appeal, and police won't be…
A surveillance camera set up to catch vandals in Santa Fe wound up taping a New Mexico police officer having sex with a woman in broad daylight on the hood of his car. In this news report we see a reporter approach locals and show them the pictures, which must have been awkward. The images were taken while the…
What is it with county prosecutors and sexual favors? Five Tennessee women say that, as Hawkins County assistant DA, Doug Godbee offered them leniency in exchange for sex. One of the women was only 18.
It took 13 years for law enforcement to properly investigate Helena Lazaro's brutal rape. It took far less than that for Law & Order: SVU to base an episode on her story; it airs Sept. 29, Lazaro tells us.
A Seattle police officer clocked a 17-year-old girl after spotting her and her friends jaywalking. The girls were "verbally antagonistic toward the officer," things escalated...and so the punch was warranted, you know? Oh, and it was caught on video. Fun.
[Los Angeles, October 22. Image via Getty]
In the year since Human Rights Watch's Sarah Tofte revealed that the LAPD had 7,000 of America's estimated 400,000 untested rape kits, Nicholas Kristof and a PBS report show it's not much better.
If you ever wanted a step-by-step description of how a rape exam is conducted in California (your state may vary - mine does), Sarah Tofte's OpEd in the LA Times is a good place to start. It's also a good place to start wondering why some women even bother - as Tofte points out, at least 400,000 collected rape kits in…
