Police Sexual Misconduct - Revision history

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	===Wikipedia===		===Wikipedia===

	[[Wikipedia censorship of MAP related topics\|Wikipedia]], which has between 70 and 100+ articles on weapons manufacturer Raytheon and its various products<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon See Infobox for Raytheon and related topics]</ref> has disappointed some with its almost complete failure to address Police Sexual Misconduct. For example, [[Wikipedia:Category:Child sexual abuse in law enforcement\|Category:Child sexual abuse in law enforcement]] and [[Wikipedia:Category:Sexual abuse in law enforcement\|Category:Sexual abuse in law enforcement]] contain very few US law enforcement officials, documenting mainly murderers and foreign criminals. This follows the tendency of Wikipedia to portray police corruption and abuses of power as a mainly violent and non-western phenomenon.		[[Wikipedia censorship of MAP related topics\|Wikipedia]], which by comparison has between 70 and 100+ articles on weapons manufacturer Raytheon and its various products<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon See Infobox for Raytheon and related topics]</ref> has disappointed some with its almost complete failure to address Police Sexual Misconduct. For example, [[Wikipedia:Category:Child sexual abuse in law enforcement\|Category:Child sexual abuse in law enforcement]] and [[Wikipedia:Category:Sexual abuse in law enforcement\|Category:Sexual abuse in law enforcement]] contain very few US law enforcement officials, documenting mainly murderers and foreign criminals. This follows the tendency of Wikipedia to portray police corruption and abuses of power as a mainly violent and non-western phenomenon.

	At the time of writing, there are no overview Wikipedia articles dedicated to the above topics.		At the time of writing, there are no overview Wikipedia articles dedicated to the above topics.

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	[[File:Policemisconduct.png\|thumb\|If it is true that [[Debate Guide: Power disparity\|authority silences victims]], it must follow that the true extent of Police Sexual Misconduct is ultimately unknowable]]		[[File:Policemisconduct.png\|thumb\|If it is true that [[Debate Guide: Power disparity\|authority silences victims]], it must follow that the true extent of Police Sexual Misconduct is ultimately unknowable]]
	__NOTOC__'''Police Sexual Misconduct''', sometimes referred to as '''Police Sexual Violence''' is conduct by law enforcement officers that violates laws on sexual offending. It may or may not involve [[Special Article: Abuse of authority\|abuse of office]], or abuse of privileges of office.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67148168 Police paedophiles: More than 30 guilty since January 2022]</ref>		__NOTOC__'''Police Sexual Misconduct''', sometimes referred to as '''Police Sexual Violence''' is conduct by law enforcement officers that violates laws on sexual offending. It may or may not involve [[Special Article: Abuse of authority\|abuse of office]], or abuse of privileges of office.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67148168 Police paedophiles: More than 30 guilty since January 2022]</ref>

			[[Kenneth Lanning]] has suggested there is a tendency for sexual offenders to gravitate towards positions of authority.<ref>[https://fstube.net/w/pRPSQ3A3y3jac3hqkAMSTZ Kenneth Lanning testimony from 12.30]</ref>

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	10 percent of criminal charges filed against officers in the US (multiple years to 2022) were for child sex abuse.<ref name="slate" /> In the UK, a similar proportion of dismissals span from similar offending, but even more are dismissed for the vague and hard-to-determine offense of "inappropriate communications".<ref>[https://uk.news.yahoo.com/number-officers-barred-merseyside-police-230100400.html Number of officers barred from Merseyside Police reaches five year high], [https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/more-730-police-officers-sacked-36066054 Similar story in the Daily Star]</ref>		10 percent of criminal charges filed against officers in the US (multiple years to 2022) were for child sex abuse.<ref name="slate" /> In the UK, a similar proportion of dismissals span from similar offending, but even more are dismissed for the vague and hard-to-determine offense of "inappropriate communications".<ref>[https://uk.news.yahoo.com/number-officers-barred-merseyside-police-230100400.html Number of officers barred from Merseyside Police reaches five year high], [https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/more-730-police-officers-sacked-36066054 Similar story in the Daily Star]</ref>

			As per the following section, modern news media has exposed multiple examples of child sexual offending by Law Enforcement Officers. Many such examples appear every week in news aggregation services such as Google News, leading some to speculate as to the true frequency of sexual offending among Law Enforcement Officers vs. the general population (of comparable age and gender). The ''Daily Mail'' published data from a Child Porn bust, which showed, astoundingly, that 1 in 26 of those arrested was serving as a police officer.<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-151784/50-police-officers-arrested-child-porn-raids.html Story from the Daily Mail]</ref>

	==Child offending "epidemic"==		==Child offending "epidemic"==

	In the 2010s and 2020s, the digitization of News Media allowed for the public recognition of multiple child sexual offences linked to Law Enforcement Officers, particularly in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.<ref>[https://themessenger.com/news/corrections-officer-who-called-for-killing-pedophiles-arrested-on-child-porn-charges Corrections Officer Who Called for Killing Pedophiles Arrested on Child Porn Charges]</ref><ref>[https://www.noticer.news/victoria-police-officer-pleads-guilty-child-abuse/ Case of Alan Hawley]</ref><ref>[https://www.fox8live.com/2025/08/06/former-nopd-detective-convicted-sex-offender-back-jail-facing-new-charges/ Case of Stanley Burkhardt]</ref><ref>[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/trusted-paedophile-hunter-policeman-caught-13846995 Case of Lee Kelly]</ref> In the same period, social media personalities, particularly those associated with the left-wing political tendency, began to document these cases in ways that became increasingly systematic. In some cases, critics have sought to expose racial and gender injustices in law enforcement as well as what they see as the sexual predation of children, stigmatization of sex workers and female drivers by LEOs.<ref>[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9365085/ The Situational Context of Police Sexual Violence: Data and Policy Implications]</ref> When combined with disconcerting facts about intelligence agents (i.e. the tendency for federal child pornographers not to face prosecution when material is found on official storage media<ref>See, e.g. [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/cia-employees-sex-crimes-children-secret-files-foia Buzzfeed], and [https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2016/05/feds-have-found-unbelievable-amounts-child-porn-national-security-computers-solution/127944/ nextgov].</ref>), Police Sexual Misconduct has the potential to act as a radicalizing agent for anti-police sentiment.		In the 2010s and 2020s, the digitization of News Media allowed for the public recognition of multiple child sexual offences linked to Law Enforcement Officers, particularly in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.<ref>[https://themessenger.com/news/corrections-officer-who-called-for-killing-pedophiles-arrested-on-child-porn-charges Corrections Officer Who Called for Killing Pedophiles Arrested on Child Porn Charges]</ref><ref>[https://www.noticer.news/victoria-police-officer-pleads-guilty-child-abuse/ Case of Alan Hawley]</ref><ref>[https://www.fox8live.com/2025/08/06/former-nopd-detective-convicted-sex-offender-back-jail-facing-new-charges/ Case of Stanley Burkhardt]</ref><ref>[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/trusted-paedophile-hunter-policeman-caught-13846995 Case of Lee Kelly]</ref> In the same period, social media personalities, particularly those associated with the left-wing political tendency, began to document these cases in ways that became increasingly systematic. In some cases, critics have sought to expose racial and gender injustices in law enforcement as well as what they see as the sexual predation of children, stigmatization of sex workers and female drivers by LEOs.<ref>[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9365085/ The Situational Context of Police Sexual Violence: Data and Policy Implications]</ref> When combined with disconcerting facts about intelligence agents (i.e. the tendency for federal child pornographers not to face prosecution when material is found on official storage media<ref>See, e.g. [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/cia-employees-sex-crimes-children-secret-files-foia Buzzfeed], and [https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2016/05/feds-have-found-unbelievable-amounts-child-porn-national-security-computers-solution/127944/ nextgov].</ref>), Police Sexual Misconduct has the potential to act as a radicalizing agent for anti-police sentiment.

	It is true that modern news media has exposed multiple examples of child sexual offending by Law Enforcement Officers, as many such examples appear every week in news aggregation services such as Google News. However, there is less data on the frequency of sexual offending among Law Enforcement Officers vs. the general population, as sorted by age and gender. [[Kenneth Lanning]] has suggested there is a tendency for sexual offenders to gravitate towards positions of authority.<ref>[https://fstube.net/w/pRPSQ3A3y3jac3hqkAMSTZ Kenneth Lanning testimony from 12.30]</ref> The ''Daily Mail'' published data from a Child Porn bust, which showed, astoundingly, that 1 in 26 of those arrested was serving as a police officer.<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-151784/50-police-officers-arrested-child-porn-raids.html Story from the Daily Mail]</ref>

	===2024 WaPo Investigation===		===2024 WaPo Investigation===

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	* This 0.3% of high-risk individuals are 40% more likely to achieve a non-custodial sentence according to the above figures.		* This 0.3% of high-risk individuals are 40% more likely to achieve a non-custodial sentence according to the above figures.

	10 percent of criminal charges filed against officers in the US (multiple years to 2022) were for child sex abuse.<ref name="slate" /> In the UK, a similar proportion of dismissals span from similar offending, but even more are dismissed for "inappropriate communications".<ref>[https://uk.news.yahoo.com/number-officers-barred-merseyside-police-230100400.html Number of officers barred from Merseyside Police reaches five year high], [https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/more-730-police-officers-sacked-36066054 Similar story in the Daily Star]</ref>		10 percent of criminal charges filed against officers in the US (multiple years to 2022) were for child sex abuse.<ref name="slate" /> In the UK, a similar proportion of dismissals span from similar offending, but even more are dismissed for the vague and hard-to-determine offense of "inappropriate communications".<ref>[https://uk.news.yahoo.com/number-officers-barred-merseyside-police-230100400.html Number of officers barred from Merseyside Police reaches five year high], [https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/more-730-police-officers-sacked-36066054 Similar story in the Daily Star]</ref>

	==Child offending "epidemic"==		==Child offending "epidemic"==

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	__NOTOC__'''Police Sexual Misconduct''', sometimes referred to as '''Police Sexual Violence''' is conduct by law enforcement officers that violates laws on sexual offending. It may or may not involve [[Special Article: Abuse of authority\|abuse of office]], or abuse of privileges of office.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67148168 Police paedophiles: More than 30 guilty since January 2022]</ref>		__NOTOC__'''Police Sexual Misconduct''', sometimes referred to as '''Police Sexual Violence''' is conduct by law enforcement officers that violates laws on sexual offending. It may or may not involve [[Special Article: Abuse of authority\|abuse of office]], or abuse of privileges of office.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67148168 Police paedophiles: More than 30 guilty since January 2022]</ref>

	In many cases (around 1/3rd of US sexual offenses an officer is charged for) a child or minor is involved.<ref>[https://reason.com/2016/11/02/sexual-misconduct-in-us-police-force/?nab=1 Reason: Victims Were Kids for One-Third of U.S. Police Officers Who Lost Badges for Sexual Misconduct]</ref> Alarmingly, while marginally over 1% of child sex offenders in the general population get non-custodial (probation) sentences, 40% of police officers convicted of similar offenses do.<ref name="slate">[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/the-quiet-epidemic-child-predators-police.html Slate: The Quiet Epidemic of Predators in Uniforms]</ref> ~~Given~~ 0.3% of the US population are ~~themselves officers, and~~ officers bias male-adult (after minor boys, the on-risk demographic for CSO)~~, there is a strong probability that~~ a ~~''sizeable minority'' of child sex offenders achieving~~ non-custodial ~~are in fact officers~~. 10 percent of criminal charges filed against officers in the US (multiple years to 2022) were for child sex abuse.<ref name="slate" /> In the UK, a similar proportion of dismissals span from similar offending, but even more are dismissed for "inappropriate communications".<ref>[https://uk.news.yahoo.com/number-officers-barred-merseyside-police-230100400.html Number of officers barred from Merseyside Police reaches five year high], [https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/more-730-police-officers-sacked-36066054 Similar story in the Daily Star]</ref>		==Facts and figures==

			In many cases (around 1/3rd of US sexual offenses an officer is charged for) a child or minor is involved.<ref>[https://reason.com/2016/11/02/sexual-misconduct-in-us-police-force/?nab=1 Reason: Victims Were Kids for One-Third of U.S. Police Officers Who Lost Badges for Sexual Misconduct]</ref> Alarmingly, while marginally over 1% of child sex offenders in the general population get non-custodial (probation) sentences, 40% of police officers convicted of similar offenses do.<ref name="slate">[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/the-quiet-epidemic-child-predators-police.html Slate: The Quiet Epidemic of Predators in Uniforms]</ref> There is a strong probability that a ''sizeable minority'' (possibly 12-20%) of all child sex offenders achieving non-custodial sentences are in fact officers. We know this is likely, because:

			* 0.3% of the US population are police officers.
			* Officers bias male-adult (after minor boys, the on-risk demographic for CSO).
			* This 0.3% of high-risk individuals are 40% more likely to achieve a non-custodial sentence according to the above figures.

			10 percent of criminal charges filed against officers in the US (multiple years to 2022) were for child sex abuse.<ref name="slate" /> In the UK, a similar proportion of dismissals span from similar offending, but even more are dismissed for "inappropriate communications".<ref>[https://uk.news.yahoo.com/number-officers-barred-merseyside-police-230100400.html Number of officers barred from Merseyside Police reaches five year high], [https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/more-730-police-officers-sacked-36066054 Similar story in the Daily Star]</ref>

	==Child offending "epidemic"==		==Child offending "epidemic"==

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	*[https://policecrime.bgsu.edu/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-templateHome/CrimesHome/Crimes The Henry A. Wallace Police Crime Database]		*[https://policecrime.bgsu.edu/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-templateHome/CrimesHome/Crimes The Henry A. Wallace Police Crime Database]
	*[https://copcrisis.com/ CopCrisis]		*[https://copcrisis.com/ CopCrisis]
			*[https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/met-police-misconduct-1000-sexual-allegations-investigated-against-officers/151516/ Met Police misconduct: 1000 sexual allegations to be investigated against officers]

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