"New Orleans special crimes detectives routinely ignored cases, report says" New York Times November 13, 2014
NEW ORLEANS — A scathing report on a New Orleans Police Department unit has found that in nearly 1,300 sex-crime-related calls fielded by five detectives over a three-year period, 86 percent showed no record of having been investigated beyond an initial report, with the substantial majority being simply classified as miscellaneous.
The report, compiled by the city’s Office of Inspector General, examined every call that came to the five detectives, in the police department’s special victims unit, between 2011 and 2013. During that time, 1,290 calls for service were assigned to these detectives, who are not named in the report. In only 450 cases did the detectives fill out an initial report, and in 271 of those cases, no further reports were made.
Police Chief Michael Harrison said in a news conference that the five detectives and their supervisors had been assigned to other departments.
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Also see: At 6 she was rights pioneer, but now finds US still split by race
Yeah, forget all about what happened during Katrina, etc.
Related:
"A former New York City police officer whose bizarre online exchanges about kidnapping and eating women landed him behind bars and earned him tabloid infamy as the ‘‘cannibal cop’’ was sentenced to time served Wednesday after telling a judge that the women were ‘‘never in danger.’’
Cops and their sick sex games, huh?
Still going to get you that rape kit:
"Evidence from up to 70,000 rape cases nationwide will get long-awaited DNA testing, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. announced Wednesday as he pledged as much as $35 million to help eliminate a backlog that has long troubled authorities, victims and lawmakers. Experts estimate hundreds of thousands of rape kits — swabs and specimens gathered during examinations of victims — remain to be tested for genetic evidence that could identify, or eliminate, a suspect. Some kits have languished for decades. Rape victims deserve to see that the extensive exams weren't for nothing, Vance said. "We want them to know that we, as a nation, are doing everything in our power to bring justice to them," he said at a news conference with advocates including "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" star Mariska Hargitay."
It's ALL an agenda-pushing SHOW, folks!!
So where is Strauss-Kahn now?
