…at least 400 lawsuits against the city Department of Correction filed under New York State’s Adult Survivors Act, signed into law in May 2022. Similar to the Child Victims Act, the ASA gives alleged victims of sexual assault a window to seek monetary damages long after the statute of limitations for possible criminal charges expired.
I like to think that most people are good, and then I see shit like this.
Most people are people. Reasonably good but self-interested. But even a small percentage of bad people multiplied by humanity is a huge number, particularly when self-interest overlaps with evil.
Sorry for what these links are about to do to you on this topic.
https://msmagazine.com/2021/03/17/cops-rape-prisoners-custody-closing-the-law-enforcement-consent-loophole/
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/us/police-sexual-assaults-maryland-scope/index.html
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/can-police-legally-rape-people-35-states/
( I like how snopes skirts the issue by pretending there can be consent when one of you is a prisoner of the other)
https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2018/jul/21/policetoo-35-states-allow-consensual-sex-between-police-and-detainees/
https://www.essence.com/news/law-enforcement-assualt-loophole/
Federal police are no longer allowed, but you aren’t usually getting arrested by Federal police soooo