[identity profile] underlankers.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] talkpolitics
Oklahoma actually indicted and convicted one Daniel Holtzclaw, serial rapist police officer, on the count of raping 18 women. Holtzclaw, in the process of his crimes, was known by the police of the city he was 'protecting' as a rapist before the final rapes he committed prior to his arrest:

http://jezebel.com/civil-suit-claims-that-police-were-investigating-daniel-1747698368

I am not the only one surprised that a police officer, given the tendency of police to go Omerta to save their fellow officers whenever one of them gets caught breaking the laws they claim to protect, actually got convicted by any means. In an ironic example of what 'liberty' and 'freedom' and 'innocent until proven guilty' are supposed to mean, cops accused of rape are seldom, if ever, convicted regardless of how much evidence there is to support them.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-daniel-holtzclaw-20151211-story.html

To me, there is something ironic, too, in that the defense deliberately went for an all white jury, which led to both the conviction of the officer, and to that officer mouthing either "How could you do this" or "Why would you do this" before the camera. It was clearly selecting an all-white jury for a reason, especially where a white police officer is noted as a perpetrator of crimes on black people, and clearly tthe defense chose....poorly. Now granted, he was only convicted on 18 of 36, but still.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ebonycom/with-daniel-holtzclaw-con_b_8780178.html

The way that I look at it, the conviction of Daniel Hotlzclaw proves that occasionally, when caught red-handed, even a society prone to drive rape victims out of town rather than punish the rapists and prone to  treat rapists as martyrs to injustice can in actual fact do the right thing in spite of itself. This society may burn down towns over the dismissal of someone who aids and abets pedophiles, but it at least won't tolerate this serial rapist with a badge, this time.

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Date: 14/12/15 15:29 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ddstory.livejournal.com
Good for them. When this becomes the norm rather than exception, I'll be truly impressed. Not holding my breath, though.

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Date: 16/12/15 08:47 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] airiefairie.livejournal.com
Is this the first such case?

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