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Police officers often threaten Cape Town's sex workers with violence or compel them to have sex with them to avoid arrest or secure their release from custody, a survey by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) has found.
Researchers Nicole Fick and Chandre Gould surveyed 35 street-based sex workers - those who work out of doors rather than in brothels or at escort agencies.
Of the 35 sex workers, 47 percent said they had been threatened with violence by police, 12 percent said they had been raped by policemen, and 28 percent said they had been asked for sex by policemen in... Read more
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Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
26 October 2008
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Man accusing NYPD cops reitera
As officials continue to investigate an allegation that has stirred memories of one of the New York Police Department's darkest days, a Brooklyn man yesterday spoke from his hospital bed to reiterate his claim that an officer sexually assaulted him with a police radio.
Michael Mineo, 24, cried and rubbed a hand across his face. "I was assaulted," he said.
Mineo, who is at the Caledonian Campus of The Brooklyn Hospital Center, has alleged that four officers tackled him and held him down on the platform of the Prospect Park station as one violated him with a police radio antenna.
Police deny that and say that two civilian witnesses say no such assault took place.
"Here we go again. Abner Louima, [Sean] Bell, and now add to that list Michael Mineo," Mineo's attorney, Stephen Jackson, of Manhattan, said yesterday at the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network in Harlem. Later, he and Sharpton visited Mineo in the hospital, where Sharpton gripped Mineo's hand as Mineo spoke tearfully to reporters.
Mineo spent four days in The Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center following the alleged attack on Oct. 15 and had been expected to appear at Sharpton's weekly meeting. But Thursday, he was admitted to Brooklyn Hospital Center because of pain and blood in his urine, Jackson said.
Sharpton, a vocal and persistent critic of police misconduct, said of Mineo. "I don't care if the cops were black and he was white or vice versa. We cannot have a system where people ... suffer some kind of physical damage, and they not be objectively and thoroughly investigated to hold the police accountable if a crime occurred."
The Brooklyn district attorney's office is investigating the incident and set up a hotline Friday at 718-250-2759. Spokesman Sandy Silverstein would not say yesterday if anyone has called.
Officials are awaiting DNA evidence from equipment, including a radio, that was taken from a 71st Precinct locker on Friday.
The four NYPD officers and a transit police officer, who was at the scene but not directly involved, remain on active duty.
"We have no evidence of wrongdoing by these officers that would necessitate a change in their duty status," said Deputy Chief Michael Collins, a department spokesman.
Two sources involved in the investigation said representatives of the officers will contact the district attorney's office this week to ask if prosecutors want to talk with them.
According to records obtained by The Associated Press, Mineo arrived at The Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center on Oct. 15, complaining he had been assaulted by police with a foreign object. The papers say he left the hospital four days later, after he was treated for "anal assault."
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