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Excerpt: "In six pages of the 163-page report documenting how Baltimore police officers have systematically violated the rights of African-Americans, the Justice Department also painted a picture of a police culture deeply dismissive of sexual assault victims and hostile toward prostitutes and transgender people."

Vanita Gupta, the Justice Department's top civil rights official, described 'gender-biased policing' in Baltimore. (photo: Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times)
Vanita Gupta, the Justice Department's top civil rights official, described 'gender-biased policing' in Baltimore. (photo: Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times)


DOJ Report: Baltimore Police Humiliated Women Who Reported Sexual Assaults

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Jess Bidgood, The New York Times

12 August 16

 

or the past two years, ever since 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer, America has been enmeshed in a wrenching discussion about how the police treat young black men.

But this week’s blistering report from the Justice Department on police bias in Baltimore also exposed a different, though related, concern: how the police in that majority-black city treat women, especially victims of sexual assault.

In six pages of the 163-page report documenting how Baltimore police officers have systematically violated the rights of African-Americans, the Justice Department also painted a picture of a police culture deeply dismissive of sexual assault victims and hostile toward prostitutes and transgender people. It branded the Baltimore Police Department’s response to sexual assault cases “grossly inadequate.”


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