Is justice departmentCurrently weighing to continue your investigation into NYPD’s Special Victims DivisionI am one of the remaining people who instigated the investigation.
About 10 years ago, I woke up in a Brooklyn Hospital, in which no memory I had reached there. My brain was scrambled and foggy.
I knew that I had gone to Happy Hour with two male colleagues a day earlier. The last moment I clearly remembered that one of them was asking me a question, about which I was struggling to answer.
Then everything turned black.
Triangle notes obtained from the hospital offered a clue: Pinpoint Pupils. This description suggested a medicine, not alcohol alone.
I chose to complete a sexual harassment evidence kit – usually known as a rape kit – and file a police report. But when a detective came from Brooklyn Special Victims Division, the first thing he asked me was, “Is it really a matter of attack or regret?”
He said that there was not much due to my fragmented memory and insisted that I make a tape-riddled call “to my alleged rapist, to see if he would confess.
Nothing was controlled about it. He did not prepa me, besides giving me a terrible script: friend for him. It is said that you had a great time, but you cannot miss all the details and can he fill the space.
Call, uncertainly, did not result in an conflict. Later, the detective assigned me a form that he said that my case would be held, which would pending the proofs moving forward.
But he will never try to get the evidence that is moving forward, such as monitoring tape, or interviewing my other colleague. He never interviewed my rapist. This is because he knew something that I did not do: The form I signed was actually a case closure form.
Two years later, Michael Osgood, deputy chief of the Special Victim Division, re -opened my case after Jane Manning, a former sexual offense prosecutor, advocate and director of the same justice like women helped me bring it to his attention.
He reviewed my case and put new detectives on it, who interviewed the witnesses and tried to retrieve monitoring tapes and receipts. Unfortunately, most of the evidence had gone for a long time.
In 2018, NYPD shut down my detective investigative unit and shifted the leading Osgood to the head of the patrol in the Stateen Island.
Manning and I, with another survivor, met the next day with the police leadership, to beg the cases and explained how our original detectives did not investigate them properly.
A few months later, NYPD established a very short medicine and alcohol featured the analytical team – and put my original detective on it.
Ever since I became public for the first time, I have met many people who have shared the same.Horror storiesRegarding NYPD, ranging from doubtful authorities, poorly controlled calls and substandard investigation, lump sum abuse.
The issues are not new from systemic, embarrassing and madness.
In 2010, a working group recommended a reform that special victims could give better answers to sex crimes, in which rape sex crimes are necessary and it is necessary that its detectives, not patrol officers, respond to the victims in emergency rooms.
Casalids exploded 3,657 to 5,725 to 2012 in 2010But the level of staffing did not increase. In 2009, before the influx of cases, they had 72 investigator For adult sexual offenses. Between 2012 and 2017, they average 73.5,
As a result, many cases like me were not properly investigated. In fact, NYPD has a high number of the so-called “baseless” case-as an inquiry defined by the FBI which was “no crime nor an attempt nor an attempt.”
From 2014 to 2016,NYPD “baseless” rape more than 16 percentThis is a suspected high rate – the Los Angeles Police Department laid down 3 percent or less during the same period.
A2021 reportThe research was commissioned from the Research Triangle Institute International and NYPD that controlled call victims were presented as “regular” and sometimes as “nothing or nothing” options for the progress of the case – rarely as a result of the entry of a suspect of crime.
These are fundamental issues that I have signed a letter to the Department of Justice, who are asking for the investigation of the special victim division.
We have waited for three years to see the conclusions, which we already know that NYPD has been engaged in systemic bias against women for years.
By making its findings public and implementing reforms, the Department of Justice will address extensive issues that survivors have experienced for more than a decade – but more importantly, a signal across the country sends a signal that women matters and are worth equality under law.
Anything less will tell the remaining people like me that justice was never talked about.
Leslie McFaden is a survivor and former journalist about whom the discovery of justice helped trigger a federal investigation into the NYPD Special Victims Division.
