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Sexual violence at the hands of police:

• Sexual misconduct is the second most frequently reported form of police misconduct after excessive force.

• An officer is accused of an act of sexual misconduct at least every five days.

• In more than 70% of cases officers targeted “motorists, crime victims, informants, students and young people in job-shadowing programs.” 
• In 41% of cases of sexual misconduct by police officers, the officer had already been accused between two and 20 times before they were convicted of a criminal offense. 

• At the national level, 990 officers had their licenses revoked between 2009 and 2014 because of rape, sodomy or other sexual misconduct.

• A national study of officer arrests for sexual misconduct between 2005 and 2011 found that one-half of the cases involved on-duty sexual offenses, one-fifth forcible rape, and almost one-quarter forcible fondling, and that almost one-half targeted minors. 

• About half of victims of police sexual misconduct are under the age of eighteen.

• A study surveying almost 1,000 youth in New York City found that two out of five young women had been sexually harassed by police officers. 

• Rape and sexual abuse by police [in the United States] are primarily reported by women of color.

• In a 2012 national survey of 2,376 LGBT people, sexual harassment by police was reported by 3% of all respondents, 5% of respondents of color, 5% of HIV-positive respondents, and 7% of transgender or gender-noncomforming respondents.

• 15% percent of transgender individuals report being sexually assaulted while in police custody or jail, which more than doubles (32%) for African-American transgender people. 5-9% of transgender survivors were sexually assaulted by police officers.

• Seattle police chief Norm Stamper described cases in which cops fondled prisoners, made false traffic stops of attractive women, traded sexual favors for freedom, had sex with teenagers and raped children. “Sexual predation by police officers happens far more often than people in the business are willing to admit.” 

“Police sexual misconduct is common, and anyone who maintains it isn’t doesn’t get it.”

– Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper