The Rape Squad Files: Turnaround for a Troubled Unit--From Old.... Craig R. McCoy.
by McCoy, Craig R; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 75Institutions. Publisher: Philadelphia Inquirer, 2003ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Philadelphia (Pa.) | Police | Police charges | Police misconduct | Rape -- Investigation | Rape victimsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Roscoe Cofield says some women lie about being raped. He had a joke name for the Philadelphia police sex crimes unit, where he worked for nine years: 'The Lying Bitches Unit,' Cofield says he called it. He was the unit's assigned investigator in 1995 when a 13-year-old girl named Kelly reported that she had been raped. He wrote off her complaint as something less than a crime." (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) This article addresses the mishandling of rape complaints by the Philadelphia rape squad.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Rape Squad Files: Turnaround for a Troubled Unit--From Old..., June 23, 2003; pp. A1+.
"Roscoe Cofield says some women lie about being raped. He had a joke name for the Philadelphia police sex crimes unit, where he worked for nine years: 'The Lying Bitches Unit,' Cofield says he called it. He was the unit's assigned investigator in 1995 when a 13-year-old girl named Kelly reported that she had been raped. He wrote off her complaint as something less than a crime." (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) This article addresses the mishandling of rape complaints by the Philadelphia rape squad.
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