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What cops dont want to talk about is this guy (and others) get victims by pretending to be cops.
Because even real cops don't follow procedure and will kill people for not following nonsensical orders, it's really easy for criminals to just yell "police" and victims know even if it's legitimately a cop, they may be murdered for not doing everything the person claiming to be a cop orders them to do.
Even the rape after "arrest", that's something cops are legally allowed to do in a lot of states still. They can just claim it's consensual even when the women is being detained and handcuffed, and then it's the cops word against their victim.
When cops act like criminals, it's impossible to know if someone is a cop and also a criminal, or just a criminal pretending to be a cop.
To add context this isn't a hypothetical situation. In New York Two cops Eddie Martins and Richard Hall raped an 18 year old woman they had arrested for marijuana possession. They detained a group of teens, and let all of them go except for the woman who they then handcuffed and raped in the back of their police van. They then dropped her off in another location. She went to a hospital where a rape kit found semen matching the DNA of detectives Eddie Martins and Richard Hall. Both officers claimed that they did have sex with her, but it was consensual. Because it wasn't specifically illegal for police to have sex with someone they detained they were able to accept a plea deal for taking bribes and official misconduct where they got 5 years probation with no jail time. Because of this case New York unanimously passed a new law (SB S7708) making it so that a person “under arrest, detention or otherwise in actual custody” cannot consent to sex. In any other state that doesn't have a similar law it is essentially legal (as in it is not specifically illegal) for police to rape someone they arrested.
That's pretty horrifying. You have all the evidence you need but can't do anything. Being police always puts you in a position of power, which makes it so much more likely for people to not resist for the fear of consequences.