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  • #31
    Since this concerns police unions and the negative effect they have...

    Source: For years, the Boston Police kept a secret: the union president was an alleged child molester


    Despite 1995 evidence, Patrick Rose kept his badge, worked on child sexual assault cases, and ascended to power in the police union. He went on to allegedly molest five other children.


    A father and his teenage daughter walked into the Hyde Park police station last August and reported a heinous crime.

    The girl said she had been repeatedly molested from age 7 through 12 by former Boston police union president Patrick M. Rose Sr. Five more people soon came forward, accusing Rose of molesting them as children over the span of three decades, including the girl’s own father.

    Rose being tagged as a child sexual abuser was news to the city when he was arrested and charged last summer. But it wasn’t news to the Boston Police Department where Rose served for two decades as a patrolman.

    A Globe investigation has found that the Boston Police Department in 1995 filed a criminal complaint against him for sexual assault on a 12-year-old, and, even after the complaint was dropped, proceeded with an internal investigation that concluded that he likely committed a crime. Despite that finding, Rose kept his badge, remained on patrol for another 21 years, and rose to power in the union that represents patrol officers.

    Today Boston police are fighting to keep secret how the department handled the allegations against Rose, and what, if any, penalty he faced. Over the years, this horrific case has come full circle: The father who brought his daughter in last summer to report abuse by Rose was the boy allegedly abused at age 12 in the 1995 case. The department’s lack of administrative action back then may have left Rose free to offend again and again, from one generation to the next.

    Prosecutors now say the boy recanted his story under pressure from Rose, a common phenomenon for young survivors of abuse when faced with demands from their abuser. Though the criminal case against Rose was dropped as a result, a separate police internal affairs investigation went forward and concluded Rose broke the law.

    Boston police won’t say what, if any, disciplinary action was taken against Rose. But it is clear the department did little or nothing to limit his contact with children, and allowed him to salvage a career that led to the union presidency, where he became the public face of the city’s 1,500 patrol officers.

    The Globe investigation raises significant questions about how the department handled Rose, whose broader history of alleged molestation has only become clear now that he is jailed facing 33 counts of sexual abuse of six victims from age 7 to 16 in Suffolk Superior Court. For security reasons, he is being held in the Berkshire County Jail on $200,000 cash bail.

    His attorney, William J. Keefe, said Rose is fighting the charges.


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    • #32
      Originally posted by myth View Post
      I'm ok with idea of police oversight groups, in general. I am not ok with ...
      Even when I disagree with him, which frankly doesn't happen very often, I find myth to be a thoughtful and balanced proponent of good police work, and the kind of Christian I most admire. Thank you for your thoughts. It's good to see you still contributing from time to time.

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      • #33
        Meanwhile in New York...



        Cop killer now a ‘police reform’ advisor
        Richard Rivera executed an NYPD cop in 1981, now he's a police reform advisor in upstate NY

        NEW YORK — He fatally shot an NYPD police officer execution-style decades ago in a Queens bar — and now cop-killer Richard Rivera is participating in a “police reform” plan in upstate New York as part of a state-mandate launched by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

        Rivera, who murdered off-duty officer and father-of-four Robert Walsh in 1981, sits on a panel for Ithaca and Tompkins County as part of its “Reimagining Public Safety Collaborative.’’

        The advisory group was formed after Cuomo ordered municipalities to submit police-reform plans to the state by April 1 following George Floyd’s death, New York Post reported.
        https://www.lawofficer.com/cop-kille...eform-program/


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        • #34
          Originally posted by Sparko View Post
          Meanwhile in New York...



          Cop killer now a ‘police reform’ advisor
          Richard Rivera executed an NYPD cop in 1981, now he's a police reform advisor in upstate NY

          NEW YORK — He fatally shot an NYPD police officer execution-style decades ago in a Queens bar — and now cop-killer Richard Rivera is participating in a “police reform” plan in upstate New York as part of a state-mandate launched by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

          Rivera, who murdered off-duty officer and father-of-four Robert Walsh in 1981, sits on a panel for Ithaca and Tompkins County as part of its “Reimagining Public Safety Collaborative.’’

          The advisory group was formed after Cuomo ordered municipalities to submit police-reform plans to the state by April 1 following George Floyd’s death, New York Post reported.
          https://www.lawofficer.com/cop-kille...eform-program/
          Anyone care to wager that a convicted cop-killer is almost certainly going to have a strong bias against law enforcement?

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