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NYPD Detective Arrested For Raping, Sexually Abusing Brooklyn Woman

Rebecca Lawrence March 28, 2016 America, Crimes Against Women

A source in the NYPD has told the NY Daily News that an undercover detective, whose name has not yet been released, has been accused of rape and sexual assault on a woman. Sources say the 10-year veteran of the Internal Affairs Bureau was arrested on Friday. A woman reportedly …

In NYC, where ‘stranger rapes’ are on the rise, access to statistics locked down due to victim privacy concerns

Rebecca Lawrence January 23, 2016 America, Crimes Against Women, Law Enforcement

A cab in Upper Manhattan. Many stranger rapes occur in what the police call “for-hire vehicles.”

(Karsten Moran for The New York Times)

Rapes by attackers previously unknown to their victims, known as ‘stranger rapes’ are occurring at an escalating rate in New York City. While only 117 ‘stranger rapes’ were reported in 2014, the city reported 166 in 2015, and last year those numbers per month increased over the course of the …