Oklahoma police officer charged with raping women while on duty
 

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma City police officer accused of sexually assaulting 13 women while on duty will face trial for 35 felony counts including rape and sexual assault, court officials said on Wednesday.

If convicted, Daniel Holtzclaw, 27, could face life in prison. Holtzclaw, who is on paid leave, has denied the allegations against him and remains under house arrest at his parents' home in Enid, about 70 miles north of Oklahoma City.

At a pretrial hearing this week, 13 women testified about being forced into sex with the officer, who threatened many of them with jail. The charges include six counts of first-degree rape.

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"He was an officer. And I was scared. And I knew he could hurt me," one woman said in court.

Another victim, aged 17, said she was raped by Holtzclaw on the front porch of her mother?s home. She testified Holtzclaw picked her up while she walking home and threatened to arrest her on outstanding warrants.

Holtzclaw, who had been on the force for three years, was arrested in August and charged with assaulting eight women. Other victims have came forward since then. Most of the incidents are suspected of taking place between February and June. [ID:nL1N0R70GF]

Holtzclaw's next court date is Jan. 21.

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I've had a change of opinion on all this police violence. I've long thought it was anecdotal, it seems that now it's systemic. nationwide. However, the problem is easily solved. We need a federal law requiring all police in every state to wear body cameras that are required to be worn the entire time on duty and to actually be on while worn.

Problem is that even with Dash Cameras, they sometimes go missing or malfunction. It needs to be more far reaching than cameras. One suggestion was that Police Officers start paying for their occupational insurance. With each complaint found true, their insurance goes up till it can no longer be sustained. When they can pretty much act anyway they want and not be held accountable for it, they will abuse that power.

What mindset does a cop have when they do shit like this?

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I don't see why this would be a problem to implement. I know the mantra has been police are supposed to act at a higher level, but it's time to recognize human beings can't operate at a higher level due to a badge and an oath. combine that with a bunch of these police are iraq/afghanistan war vererans and now cities and municipalities are equipping these guys with the same tools they used in war zones after the military as indoctrinated them to be killers.

makes sense.

let's add some drones to the mix next with a complete lack of transparency.

This is a great idea. Why should the citizenry be the only people who are monitored and watched 24/7? Let's chip police officers so even when they are off-duty they cannot go back and assault someone (something that happened here in NYC awhile back, two cops went back to woman's apartment off-duty and raped her).

This shit is disgusting and out of control. Women should be terrifid of driving alone so a cop can notice, pull her over and rape her in the back seat of his police car? "What'cha gonna do bitch, call the cops? I AM a cop!"

Seriously, this shit has gotta stop NOW.

I agree, in watts the police turns the camera off, if the camera off, then you can take them in

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Just little pieces here and there account for the state of Law Enforcement today.

It's not nationwide, it's worldwide. And it's not new, the internet is new and social media is new. It's been going on everywhere since the beginning of time.

We've all had our heads in the sand pretending people don't try to get away with shit whenever they can. But at the same time we know they do.

So it follows that allowing the police to police themselves is not working, what do we do now? Either we accept that citizens are there to relieve the sexual and violent urges of the authority as is the case in most 3rd world countries (and any country in times of war or unrest) or else we make some big changes in the way we allow law enforcement to operate.

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Of course they're going to listen to a former Senator, but how about the common man? Would the outcome be the same? Cop gets arrested.

I disagree. Anyone would be hard-pressed to proof police brutality and power abuse has not only been systemic since the beginning of time, it's been that way every where all the time.

things happen in cycles, this is one of those things. Sure power corrupts and there have been areas where power corrupted, but this sweeping of and level of problems isn't simply due to youtube and the internet exposing it finally.

I will respectfully maintain that human nature is constant, and it is awareness that cycles.

his double chin was honking the horn

I do think awareness is the problem. For me, I think an accurate way to say it would be that I wasn't aware it was increasing to the level it has gotten to, head in the sand about that certainly.

But when it comes to organizations one person or policy, etc, can change an entire organization so I wouldn't think human nature fully applies to organizations.

but to be clear, brutality and power trips are a side-effect to requiring police, I just think that other times it's been less overall than it is now, I have a hard time seeing that it's just because of the internet and youtube, to me that seems to skirt many (some?) of the issues that contribute to the problem.

It is also action that cycles. With the systematic decline of the middle class in America there has been a decline in sustained protests. In the Sixties the protests were relentless and constant. Now? People take a day or three off from work, protest to 'make a statement' then go right back to the status quo. Corporations and the Gov't now know that if anyone DOES protest or try to resist it is merely the equivalent of blowing off steam, not seeking any real change.

We are all fucked so let's all just lay down and do whatever The Man tells us to do. Let's face it: the Hippies LOST. They gave up when Vietnam was over and danced in discos high on coke instead of solidifying any real change in this country. And now that their Generation is in power and controlling everything? Hehehe....we are all fucked.

If I had said that I would put it in my sig.

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what do you have against pompous people?

The hippies are running shit now and they are the most self righteous mother fuckers ever. They came up believing they were right and the system was wrong and doing all kinds of crazy shit just to be rebels and now they still just as sure they are the only ones who know anything but they aren't the underdogs anymore they are the establishment now.

what a sick motherfucker