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Cops Were Slacking as Woman Got Raped
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Dave Hogarty
Published Mar 15, 2008
Modified Mar 15, 2008
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Surveillance video shows that two rookie police officers were not patrolling a Brooklyn housing complex where a 30-year-old woman was raped in a stairwell last week. The two officers were disciplined for lying about doing their jobs, when in fact they were not. The victim of the assault was trailed from the subway by a man she recognized from the neighborhood and he followed her into her building's elevator. After producing a knife as she stepped off the elevator, he dragged the woman into a stairwell and threatened to kill her if she resisted or didn't stop screaming. He then raped her on a stairwell landing.
The officers, who have been stripped of their guns and badges and placed on modified duty, claimed that they were on patrol in the building's stairwells and had logged the patrols in their notebooks. Review of the building's numerous surveillance cameras provided no sign that the police were ever in the stairwell as the woman was being attacked. The rape lasted approximately 30 minutes.
The woman, who said she has lived in the Van Dyke Houses her whole life, told The New York Times that she blamed the police for not being around when they were really needed. She also complained about the physical condition of the buildings, such as a broken entranceway door that allowed anyone to come or go in and out of the building.
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