263 Year Sentence: Hotzclaw Story

"Daniel Holtzclaw's case is what inspired our investigation into police sexual misconduct. He was arrested [in 2014] after a grandmother in her 50s came forward and said that an officer had pulled her over and forced her to perform oral sex. Police began investigating the officer who she accused and found eventually a dozen of other women who came forward and said that they had been victimized by Daniel Holtzclaw, either in searches or traffic stops. ...

"Police say that Holtzclaw was able to prey on women in a minority, low-income neighborhood in northeast Oklahoma City. He specifically targeted women with drug addictions, and one case involving a woman who was a prostitute on the street who he picked up and drove home and then raped her in her house. He was able to target marginalized women who believed they wouldn't be believed if they went to the police. One woman testified when asked why she didn't call the police herself at first, she said 'who are you going to call on the police?' "

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