{"id":381925,"date":"2018-10-21T22:17:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T21:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-police-officers-charged-with-over-400-rapes-report\/"},"modified":"2018-10-21T22:17:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T21:17:01","slug":"presstv-us-police-officers-charged-with-over-400-rapes-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-police-officers-charged-with-over-400-rapes-report\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US police officers charged with over 400 rapes: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Police officers in the US were charged with more than 400 rapes and over 600 groping offenses during a nine-year period between 2005 and 2013, according to a new academic report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was an average of 45 rapes a year by police, according to research from Bowling Green State University in the US state of Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Forcible fondling was more common, with 636 instances taking place during the nine-year period, the study found.<\/p>\n<p>Yet experts say those statistics are, by no means, comprehensive because data on sexual assaults by police are almost nonexistent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just not available at all,&#8221; said Jonathan Blanks, a research associate with the Cato Institute&#8217;s Project on Criminal Justice. &#8220;You can only crowdsource this info.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The system is rigged to protect police officers from outside accountability,&#8221; Blanks said. &#8220;The worst cops are going to get the most protection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The researchers compiled their list by documenting cases of sworn nonfederal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/21\/577701\/US-police-rape-report\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers in the US were charged with more than 400 rapes and over 600 groping offenses during a nine-year period between 2005 and 2013, according to a new academic report. There was an average of 45 rapes a year by police, according to research from Bowling Green State University in the US state of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}