{"id":187386,"date":"2013-03-17T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/17\/un-dirtyword-believable-3\/"},"modified":"2013-03-17T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T00:38:00","slug":"un-dirtyword-believable-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/17\/un-dirtyword-believable-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Un-Dirtyword-Believable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Police Department <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/nypd_nab_the_victim_lXiQhecmrcMWX01cMEJ5JJ\">has established a policy to conduct criminal background checks on the <b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">victims<\/span><\/b> of domestic abuse<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Women who report domestic violence are exposing themselves to arrest under a new NYPD directive that orders cops to run criminal checks on the accused and the accuser, The Post has learned.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The memo by Chief of Detectives Phil Pulaski requires detectives to look at open warrants, complaint histories and even the driving records of both parties.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cYou have no choice but to lock them up\u201d if the victims turn out to have warrants, including for minor offenses like unpaid tickets, a police source said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThis is going to deter victims of domestic violence . . . They\u2019re going to be scared to come forward.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The directive tells detectives that when they are investigating cases of domestic violence, they should run a search that cross-references all NYPD databases.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Beside warrants, a person\u2019s criminal record and history of making criminal complaints should be checked, the directive says.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to think that the NYPD needs another <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knapp_Commission\">Knapp Commission<\/a> a the reforms associated with such an endeavor.&nbsp; (The whole racial profiling of Muslims thing, and the abuse of protestors comes to mind.)<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of rot in the force, and it this fish is rotting at the head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Police Department has established a policy to conduct criminal background checks on the victims of domestic abuse: Women who report domestic violence are exposing themselves to arrest under a new NYPD directive that orders cops to run criminal checks on the accused and the accuser, The Post has learned.The memo by Chief &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-law-enforcement-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}