Type 4: Betrayal of Trust

Abstract

The police are by theory in our communities to serve and protect. That is often not true if you live in America’s urban chaos cities or when the “officer friendly” you call sees you as an sex object. The police sexual aggressors discussed thus far, “hunt” or “troll” for victims’ through proactive policing strategies such as the customary “rolling and patrolling” of uniformed officers in marked law enforcement vehicles at the local, county, state, and federal level. The primary purpose is to provide a visible presence to prevent crime or other breaches of social order. Police-citizen encounters are most likely to occur during proactive stops under valid suspicious circumstances. However, proactive, aggressive police actions known as zero tolerance , stop and frisk, and quality of life policing cause the most police-community relations problems in urban minority communities, raising the specter of racial, ethnic, and status profiling.