LA Insp. Gen: NOPD only followed up on 14% of sex crimes

Unions baw...why do your job when the union says you don't have to.

wow!


Detective A:

Had 13 cases involving child abuse, and failed to file any follow-up reports on 11 of them.
Did not follow up on two cases of infants with head trauma, even after hospital staff reported suspicions of foul play.
Did not follow up on allegations of sexual assault involving a 2-year-old with a sexually transmitted disease.
Wrote that one child victim did not disclose any information and closed the case, even though records from an interview with another professional indicated the child had said that someone living in the same house had sexually and physically abused him or her.

Detective B:

Failed to follow up on three cases when the state DNA lab reported finding DNA evidence.

Detective C:

Reported that the state DNA lab found no DNA evidence in a rape kit that it turns out was never actually delivered to the state lab.
Wrote three supplemental reports dated in 2010 and one dated in 2011, but created all four of those computerized reports on the same day in 2013, shortly after the IG asked for them.

Detective D:

Reported that the state lab found no DNA evidence on a case where the lab report stated there was DNA evidence.
Refused to send a rape kit to the state lab and marked in a log book that "the sex was consensual," even though the alleged victim said it was not.

Detective E:

Handled two cases in which the state DNA lab's requests for information from NOPD were ignored. In one case, the lab found a DNA match and needed confirmation from NOPD, but got no response. In the other, the lab notified NOPD it sent the wrong rape kit, but got no response.
Wrote a supplemental report dated in 2010 and another dated in 2011, but created both of those computerized reports on the same day in 2013, shortly after the IG asked for them.

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Detective D, "told at least three different individuals that Detective D did not believe that simple rape should be a crime," according to the IG

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Unreal. I guess this gives the Country Club rape girl some credit.

The fact that detective D was allowed to continue to work for NOPD is disgusting.

Seriously, NOPD needs to be completely taken over by the FBI the same way the army ran the Iraqi army for 10+ years.

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The fact that detective D was allowed to continue to work for NOPD is disgusting.

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the crazy part is that may even qualify as an understatement.

Mitch for GOVERNOR

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The fact that detective D was allowed to continue to work for NOPD is disgusting.

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but that's exactly how most of the OT would have handled it. They claim that chicks are lying most of the time.

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They claim that chicks are lying most of the time.

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Proven fact, look at Duke Lacross case and Tawana Brawley...

How do they even get to this point?

What a dump. The leadership there is apparently completely useless.

I had a run in with Akron a few weeks ago, after he was assigned/demoted to patrol. A vacant house, across the street from the facility I manage, was inhabited by crackheads and one overdosed. Several ambulances, fire trucks, etc responded. A NOPD patrol car staggered in very late and the cop stayed in it for 5 mins. I approached it hoping to get help in keeping the crackheads out of the vacant house. I approach, hold out my hand to shake and introduce myself. He refuses to accept my handshake and after I ask him for assistance, he snidely retorts "Do I look like someone who can help you?" I responded that I was sorry to have bothered him. He then yells at me, "Are you being sarcastic? I ought to arrest your arse." I told him that last I checked sarcasm was not a crime, and that I truly was sorry for having bothered a police officer with a request for help.
Yep, that was my encounter with that useless POS.