{"article":{"id":153,"heading":"Domestic Violence Coverup in LAPD Made Public","author":"Feminist Majority Foundation, Argus News","created":"2000-07-21 04:00:00","modified":"2003-03-30 00:43:20","last_modified":"Sun, 30 Mar 2003 07:43:20","article":"<p>Domestic Violence Coverup in LAPD Made Public <br><br> The details of as many as 277 possible domestic violence <br>  <br> related crimes involving Los Angeles police officers were posted on the internet on Friday. Bob Mullally, a lawyer from South Dakota, performed a review of personnel files of officers accused of domestic abuse and produced a report detailing 61 assaults, 28 assaults with a deadly weapon, six rapes and one sodomy. Mullally faces possible jail time for violating a court order that sealed this report but he says it was a decision of conscience to release the report anyway. Not a single one of the cases in his report were ever prosecuted, nor were any of the police officers accused of these crimes arrested. Instead, the complaints were placed in confidential personnel files, sealed, and never reopened. In an anonymous questionnaire of police officers asking if they had ever used violence in their homes, over 40 percent responded that they had. Penny Harrington, Director of the National Center for Women &amp; Policing says, \"This means that a woman calling for help has almost a 50\/50 chance of getting a batterer answering her call.\" The LAPD has said they have changed its handling of domestic-violence cases involving officers and they now provide domestic violence training to new recruits. <br><br>      [Source: Argus Leader News - 16 July 2000]<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.feminist.org\/news\/newsbyte\/july2000\/0717.html","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The details of as many as 277 possible domestic violence\r\nrelated crimes involving Los Angeles police officers were posted on the internet on Friday. Bob Mullally, a lawyer from South Dakota, performed a review of personnel files of officers accused of domestic abuse and produced a report detailing 61 assaults, 28 assaults with a deadly weapon, six rapes and one sodomy.","numcomment":3,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2000\/07\/153.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":2912,"heading":"Cops raped women??","article":"I knew that the police used massive amounts of brutality among activists in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, but I did not know that 6 rapes were reported. Are you serious?!?! \r\n\r\nCops actually RAPED women in the prisons???????\r\nI guarantee you the mainstream media and government support these acts because the activists \"deserve it\". \r\n\r\nI can't believe this. \r\nThis is war. \r\n\r\nIn Solidarity, \r\nTim","author":"Tim","parent_id":153,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-20 16:48:39","modified":"2000-08-20 17:17:53","fileurl":""},{"id":42541,"heading":"Let Justice Reign","article":"I attended a luncheon today and the guest speaker was Bob Mullally. We watched the 60 Minutes episode and heard true domestic abuse and rape stories read directly from the files by Bob. He has been sentenced to 45 days in federal prison. What justice is that? He will serve more time than all the LAPD officers who committed felonies combined had to serve (0 days in prison)! Judge William Keller and the LAPD officers should be the ones serving a sentence not Mr. Mullally.","author":"Heather","parent_id":153,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-28 21:34:12","modified":"2003-03-28 21:34:12","fileurl":""},{"id":43492,"heading":"Take ACtion","article":"Must stop this now!","author":"fresca","parent_id":153,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-30 00:43:24","modified":"2003-03-30 00:43:24","fileurl":""}]}