You Will Anyway: NYC redefines rape

Thursday, November 2, 2017

NYC redefines rape

It's now on-the-job sex.

Un-fucking-believable.

A loophole allowing them to have sex on duty. WTF? This is not sex. This is rape.

A Brooklyn City Councilman is looking to make it illegal for police officers to have sex with people in their custody in the wake of an investigation into two Coney Island detectives accused of raping a teenager.

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One CANNOT "have sex" with someone in their custody. That's rape.

The push for legislation comes as the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office investigates detectives Richard Martins and Eddie Hall, who are accused of handcuffing an 18-year-old during a traffic stop, forcing her to perform oral sex and raping her in an unmarked van.

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According to the woman’s lawyer, the pair picked up the young woman during a traffic stop in Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend and drove her to a nearby Chipotle parking lot, where they told her she could have sex with them or go to the precinct.

The lawyer, Mark David, said both detectives forced her to perform oral sex on them and one of them raped her, all while she was handcuffed. But the officers have claimed it was consensual, sources said.

Consensual in the sense that she consented to that rather than a jail cell?!

Councilman Mark Treyger, who represents Coney Island, said he would draft legislation that would close the existing loophole in the law — which bans correctional and parole officers from having sex with detainees or parolees on the job, but does not prevent on-duty police officers from having sex with people they encounter in the course of their work.

How the hell would that be a loophole? The only people who should be having sex while on the job are sex workers, but for the love of Pete, it's not illegal, and shouldn't be. It could be a condition of their job that is signed into their contract of work if employers and hires so agree, but when someone is in handcuffs or in a jail cell, they are not simply "people they encounter in the course of their work!" WTF?

And, does the ban actually say "on the job"? So, after their shift is over, it's okay?

Treyger wrote in a statement posted online [...] “We do not need a change in laws, however, to understand that what occurred was deeply, morally wrong.”

So why in the name of Sam Hill are you drafting one? You surely already have rape laws.

Jesus wept.

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