https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tara-reade-dc-police-biden-sexual-assault-complaint-inactive
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When a police department feels direct or indirect pressure to end an investigation, whom can the police department tell about it?
Police departments have a bad reputation for being not as helpful as they could be or even hostile to people who report sexual assault. I'm not saying that has nothing to do with chauvinism or a male-dominated work environment that influences both male and female officers and investigators. I'm asking how much of the indifference or hostility is also about fear of retaliation against police departments and investigators.
Everywhere, police departments are part of their communities. Even more than the average person, the average police officer has been everywhere in his or her city, is involved in people's lives, is familiar with and familiar to various organizations, and lives in or near that city. Sexual assault is one of the most emotional crimes in terms of how everyone who is connected to or hears about the perpetrator and the victim responds.
How many sexual assaults can the human beings in a police department investigate before the emotional burden of the community fallout paralyzes that department? As an institution of police departments all over the country, all of which have that same emotional burden, who is there to hear about it and consider solutions?
That's not even to discuss in detail, at this page, the fear of financial and other material retaliation, which is obviously always in direct proportion to the power of the accused perpetrator.
Aren't the police government employees?
