Reality check
Or, how do you justify the laws?
In the recent months there have been a number of articles and news sources about politicians and other prominent people involved in sex crimes there also been a few involving police officers. This got some of us thinking and wondering what the sexual offense rate for police officers is?
We were able to find this documentation:
http://www.ucimc.org/content/national-police-misconduct-statistics-released
Working with those numbers, according to the referenced link:
0.08% (1 in 116) officers are cited for misconduct
13% of those are sex offenses/ sex related.
800,000 estimated police officers in the US (that’s one per RSO!)
Now let’s crunch some numbers…
that makes ~ 6,873 instances of officer misconduct in a 6 month period of which 13% are sex related offenses giving us a grand total of….893 sex offenses committed by police officers during a six month period from April to Sept 2009 or nearly 18 per state! Estimating for the year that would be 1786 sex related offenses for police officers of the 63,000 reported new sex offenses.
That would make about 3% of all new sex offenses are committed by police (1786/63000).
Police officers make up 0.3% of the population in the US (800,000/311,745,000).
Police commit one sex offense per 1,000 officers according to the numbers.
strangers commit less than 1% of all sex offenses. Police officers commit ~3%!
I say forget stranger danger, we have a new worry … blue danger or pervs in a uniforms.
We’re still trying to crunch realistic numbers for sex offenses by profession. Now, according to the AP, only 500 teachers were arrested as sex offenders out of 3.5 million teachers, which makes 0.014% of teachers committed sex offenses or 0.7% of all new sex offenses were committed by teachers. The latest search was for clergy sex offenders since such a big deal is made about that. The only number we have found that’s recent (2009) is 215 victims of sex offenses by clergy.
Oh yes WE must not forget to add in the re-offense rate for people on the registry for new sex crimes The June 2002: Department of Justice: Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994 (DOJ-2002) crime from 1994-1997. (DOJ-2002 page 5) we do know this, that during that time period (1994-1997): Of the released sex offenders 3.5% (339) Were reconvicted for a sex crime over a Three year period So for one year average there was 113 RE-CONVICTED for a new sex offense. (DOJ-2003[p2]). Now for the (reality) plug-in (113/63000) We get 0.17% Or basically less then 2/10 of 1%. According to the Department of Justice, most child sexual abuse victims are molested by family members (34%) or close acquaintances (59%) (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000).
Here’s the breakdown thus far, in the Percentage of new sex crimes:
Close acquaintances (59%)
Family members (34%)
Police officers 3.0%
Teachers 00.7%
Clergy 00.3%
strangers 02.8% those who have not been convicted of a sex crime (note: this could include somebody that was met at a party or a street dance and does not necessarily mean an adult)
People on the registry/previously convicted 00.17%.
Teachers, Clergy and people on the registry commit fewer New sex offenses than the
protectors of society, our diligent law enforcement officers. From this information it would
seem that one of the most single trusted segments of our society, police officers: are over
14 times more likely to be involved in a new sex crime than people on the registry and
teachers are over 3 times likely followed by clergy which are twice as likely. Maybe
before a police officer applies for a position he/she should be required to go through a sexual Predator evaluation?
- See more at: http://www.policebrutality.info/2011/06/female-sheriff-sexually-abusing-two-young-girls.html#sthash.n2IX49lR.dpuf
Or, how do you justify the laws?
In the recent months there have been a number of articles and news sources about politicians and other prominent people involved in sex crimes there also been a few involving police officers. This got some of us thinking and wondering what the sexual offense rate for police officers is?
We were able to find this documentation:
http://www.ucimc.org/content/national-police-misconduct-statistics-released
Working with those numbers, according to the referenced link:
0.08% (1 in 116) officers are cited for misconduct
13% of those are sex offenses/ sex related.
800,000 estimated police officers in the US (that’s one per RSO!)
Now let’s crunch some numbers…
that makes ~ 6,873 instances of officer misconduct in a 6 month period of which 13% are sex related offenses giving us a grand total of….893 sex offenses committed by police officers during a six month period from April to Sept 2009 or nearly 18 per state! Estimating for the year that would be 1786 sex related offenses for police officers of the 63,000 reported new sex offenses.
That would make about 3% of all new sex offenses are committed by police (1786/63000).
Police officers make up 0.3% of the population in the US (800,000/311,745,000).
Police commit one sex offense per 1,000 officers according to the numbers.
strangers commit less than 1% of all sex offenses. Police officers commit ~3%!
I say forget stranger danger, we have a new worry … blue danger or pervs in a uniforms.
We’re still trying to crunch realistic numbers for sex offenses by profession. Now, according to the AP, only 500 teachers were arrested as sex offenders out of 3.5 million teachers, which makes 0.014% of teachers committed sex offenses or 0.7% of all new sex offenses were committed by teachers. The latest search was for clergy sex offenders since such a big deal is made about that. The only number we have found that’s recent (2009) is 215 victims of sex offenses by clergy.
Oh yes WE must not forget to add in the re-offense rate for people on the registry for new sex crimes The June 2002: Department of Justice: Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994 (DOJ-2002) crime from 1994-1997. (DOJ-2002 page 5) we do know this, that during that time period (1994-1997): Of the released sex offenders 3.5% (339) Were reconvicted for a sex crime over a Three year period So for one year average there was 113 RE-CONVICTED for a new sex offense. (DOJ-2003[p2]). Now for the (reality) plug-in (113/63000) We get 0.17% Or basically less then 2/10 of 1%. According to the Department of Justice, most child sexual abuse victims are molested by family members (34%) or close acquaintances (59%) (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000).
Here’s the breakdown thus far, in the Percentage of new sex crimes:
Close acquaintances (59%)
Family members (34%)
Police officers 3.0%
Teachers 00.7%
Clergy 00.3%
strangers 02.8% those who have not been convicted of a sex crime (note: this could include somebody that was met at a party or a street dance and does not necessarily mean an adult)
People on the registry/previously convicted 00.17%.
Teachers, Clergy and people on the registry commit fewer New sex offenses than the
protectors of society, our diligent law enforcement officers. From this information it would
seem that one of the most single trusted segments of our society, police officers: are over
14 times more likely to be involved in a new sex crime than people on the registry and
teachers are over 3 times likely followed by clergy which are twice as likely. Maybe
before a police officer applies for a position he/she should be required to go through a sexual Predator evaluation?
