In 2003, I had the opportunity to work with Dr. Allan Sapp. He was the first retired police officer I shared my experience with after the Chief of my hometown treated me the way he did when I went to him for help with Mikey. Dr. Sapp educated me on what sexual exploitation by a police officer meant and that what I went through was not my fault that it was 100% the fault of the police officer. He also helped me get started on the healing process of the Sexual Assault and violence I experience with Mikey. At some point, I will be including some of my emails between Dr. Sapp and I in my blog. I lost contact with him and was not able to tell him how far I had come before he passed away. He definitely planted the seed for me to become the survivor I am today. I wish he was here to see my progress. I now understand why he was so knowledgeable on the topic of Sexual Misconduct by police officers, he had been studying the whole time I was experiencing it.

SEXUAL MISCONDUCT BY POLICE OFFICERS (FROM POLICE DEVIANCE, THIRD EDITION, P 187-200, 1994, THOMAS BARKER AND DAVID L CARTER, EDS. — SEE NCJ-144538)

• NCJ Number 144549
• Author(s) A D Sapp
• Date Published 1994
• Length 14 pages
• Annotation This paper discusses sexually motivated actions and behavior by police officers as a form of police misconduct.

Law Enforcement Misconduct. The United States Department of Justice

Police Sexual Misconduct: A national scale study of arrested officers. Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Police misconduct: Discipline records for thousands of cops uncovered (usatoday.com)

Among the findings:

• Most misconduct involves routine infractions, but the records reveal tens of thousands of cases of serious misconduct and abuse. They include 22,924 investigations of officers using excessive force, 3,145 allegations of rape, child molestation and other sexual misconduct and 2,307 cases of domestic violence by officers.
• Dishonesty is a frequent problem. The records document at least 2,227 instances of perjury, tampering with evidence or witnesses or falsifying reports. There were 418 reports of officers obstructing investigations, most often when they or someone they knew were targets.
• Less than 10% of officers in most police forces get investigated for misconduct. Yet some officers are consistently under investigation. Nearly 2,500 have been investigated on 10 or more charges. Twenty faced 100 or more allegations yet kept their badge for years.

The level of oversight varies widely from state to state. Georgia and Florida decertified thousands of police officers for everything from crimes to questions about their fitness to serve; other states banned almost none.

The high cost and toll of sexual harassment and gender discrimination in law enforcement: Part 1 and Part 2

What Everyone Needs to Know About Police Officer Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct Hubby and Abraham

HOW PREVALENT IS SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AMONG POLICE? SEXUAL POLICE MISCONDUCT STATISTICS Admin Of JML Law, A Professional Law Corporation

Police sexual abuse isn’t just the case of a few ‘bad apples’ — it’s systemic ThinkProgress

Book: Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie

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