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Oklahoma police officer convicted as serial rapist

Katz

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Daniel Holtzclaw was convicted of 18 of 36 ****s of rape and other charges. He forced women to perform oral sex and groped them during traffic stops or on the street by threatening to arrest them. One of them, a woman in her 50s named Janie Liggins, outed him. She was, unlike most of his other victims, "a grandmother who, unlike Mr. Holtzclaw's other victims, didn't have a criminal record or other troubles with the law."

One of his victims, a teenager, when asked why she hadn't called for help, asked "What police do you call on the police?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/12/us/daniel-holtzclaw-oklahoma-police-rape-case.html?_r=0

What kind of checks and balances can you put in place to make sure police can't blackmail women or men in this way: "Do what I want, or I'll arrest you on some kind of trumped-up charge"?
 
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