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Baltimore officers cited for mistreatment of women in DoJ report
Source: The Guardian
Baltimore officers cited for mistreatment of women in DoJ report
Secondary findings in Department of Justice report include
hostility towards assault victims, public strip-searches and
claims of sex in exchange for immunity
Baynard Woods in Baltimore
Thursday 11 August 2016 16.02 BST
A scathing report released on Wednesday by the US Department of Justice found that Baltimore police officers regularly engage in unlawful, egregious conduct.
The primary findings of the report focused on widespread racial bias in the patterns or practices of Baltimore police department, but there’s another strain of allegations: gender-based bias and mistreatment.
The justice department documented numerous instances in its report of hostility toward alleged sexual assault victims, callous treatment of female suspects, public strip-searches and even allegations of sex in exchange for immunity.
“They treat us differently, they call us bitches, whores, prostitutes, tricks,” one of the women who gave testimony to the DoJ but wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation said of treatment by police.
The DoJ, however, did not deem its findings widespread enough to find that the police department as a whole engaged in “gender-biased policing in violation of federal law”.
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Secondary findings in Department of Justice report include
hostility towards assault victims, public strip-searches and
claims of sex in exchange for immunity
Baynard Woods in Baltimore
Thursday 11 August 2016 16.02 BST
A scathing report released on Wednesday by the US Department of Justice found that Baltimore police officers regularly engage in unlawful, egregious conduct.
The primary findings of the report focused on widespread racial bias in the patterns or practices of Baltimore police department, but there’s another strain of allegations: gender-based bias and mistreatment.
The justice department documented numerous instances in its report of hostility toward alleged sexual assault victims, callous treatment of female suspects, public strip-searches and even allegations of sex in exchange for immunity.
“They treat us differently, they call us bitches, whores, prostitutes, tricks,” one of the women who gave testimony to the DoJ but wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation said of treatment by police.
The DoJ, however, did not deem its findings widespread enough to find that the police department as a whole engaged in “gender-biased policing in violation of federal law”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/11/baltimore-police-gender-bias-women-justice-department