For years, the Boston Police kept a secret: the union president was an alleged child molester

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/04/10/metro/years-boston-police-kept-secret-union-president-was-an-alleged-child-molester/

A father and his teenage daughter walked into the Hyde Park police station last August and reported a heinous crime.

The girl said she had been repeatedly molested from age 7 through 12 by former Boston police union president Patrick M. Rose Sr. Five more people soon came forward, accusing Rose of molesting them as children over the span of three decades, including the girl’s own father.

Rose being tagged as a child sexual abuser was news to the city when he was arrested and charged last summer. But it wasn’t news to the Boston Police Department where Rose served for two decades as a patrolman.

A Globe investigation has found that the Boston Police Department in 1995 filed a criminal complaint against him for sexual assault on a 12-year-old, and, even after the complaint was dropped, proceeded with an internal investigation that concluded that he likely committed a crime. Despite that finding, Rose kept his badge, remained on patrol for another 21 years, and rose to power in the union that represents patrol officers.

[sheshe2]

1. Very sad K&R.

[electric_blue68]

2. Another infuriating situation. Scum!

[brush]

3. Bad. Makes one almost want to defend the dumbest slogan ever.

Defund the police.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Try abolition.

[tenderfoot]

19. I thought you were going to say...

Blue Lives Matter

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25. Agreed. That's another dumb one.

[2naSalit]

5. I am so...

Not surprised.

[Initech]

6. Totally disgusting.

[SunSeeker]

7. K & R for exposure.

[Evolve Dammit]

8. That's just great. Cover for a criminal with a badge.

[RockRaven]

9. I am completely unsurprised.

Police cover up each others' murders, it's no giant leap to believe that they do the same for child molestation.

[Dawson Leery]

10. They played softball with the few cases of child molestation by the RCC.

Police "unions" are the Nostras of organized labor.

[dalton99a]

11. Kick

[Joe Nation]

12. I have come the the conclusion that there are no good cops

If you cover for cops that are committing crimes, you are not a good cop. If you turn your head and keep silent when one of your fellow officers is committing criminal acts, you are not a good cop. If you hide behind the protection of the police union when you know a crime has been committed by one of your own, you are not a good cop. If you participate in any way in the blue wall of silence, you are not a good cop. If you stay silent because you are afraid that your fellow officers will not cover your back next time if you speak up, you are not a good cop. If you know that cops regularly cover up their own criminal activities, you are not a good cop.

Now ask yourself; How many good cops do you really think there are? Telling yourself that it is only a few bad apples is tantamount to complicity. All cops are bad either by deeds or the failure to protect and serve. How long do we keep this communal delusion alive?

[Upthevibe]

13. Kick....n/t

[FailureToCommunicate]

14. And this in the same city where church sex abuse was ignored at the highest levels.

[ItsjustMe]

20. Yep

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

Spotlight (2015)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1895587/

[FailureToCommunicate]

28. Thanks for the link. As much as we rail against the "lame stream media", REAL reporting is a

long, tough, often thankless effort. But quality investigating and resulting stories can change lives, and history.

[BobTheSubgenius]

15. How does this s*** just keep on happening?

And further, how are they allowed to keep doing it???

[niyad]

16. Ssdd, apparently.

[summer_in_TX]

17. Police unions are responsible for a lot of bad stuff.

With or without child molesters as president. They seem to be all about power and protection of power.

[ItsjustMe]

18. Edmund Burke

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

[Baked Potato]

21. Disgusting. Seems police and political office are safe havens for criminals.

[Faux pas]

22. Kickin' with disgust!

[hunter]

23. Our local police were caught in a similar scandal a few years ago.

That's one reason they are not welcome in our schools.

[uponit7771]

26. omg, the police aren't welcomed in a school in the US because they were hiding a molester in

... the ranks?!

omfg, if someone from the right took this as an issue they'd win a national race

[Laffy Kat]

24. This will continue to happen in male dominated institutions.

Nothing will change until more women are integrated into these systems. We see it time and time and time again.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

27. It happens in female-dominated institutions as well, such as Catholic schools run by nuns.

Much of the problem is institutional.