The Police Are Not Your Friends, But They May Be Your Rapist!
Government sex predators abound among the badged ranks
Here at Government Sex Predators, the central thesis we seek to advance is simple: the reason only 3% of all reported rapists are convicted is due to the fact that law enforcement and the criminal justice system are infested with sexual predators. To wit, we present today’s post, which will show myriad examples of police officers who engage in rape.
We begin with Myron Howard, an Indianapolis Metro Police Department officer who was terminated for raping a domestic violence victim. After responding to a domestic violence call with other officers and helping those officers take a man into custody, Officer Howard circled back around to the victim’s home. He told her she could have gone to jail, but he didn’t say anything, and then he demanded sex. Howard said the sex was consensual, which is the rapist’s cliché. After a second domestic violence arrest involving the same woman’s boyfriend, Howard tried to come back to the victim’s home again for more sex. She refused to let him in.
A separate victim claimed that Howard told her she would have to pay for a ride home with sex after he was one of the responding officers to a car accident. Rapists often prey on domestic violence victims, single mothers, children whose parents are divorced, mentally or physically disabled adults or children, and those with substance abuse issues. When a rapist obtains a badge and a gun, he has an added layer of authority to enable his predatory behavior.
Our next example comes from the United Kingdom, where 16 year old Lauren Taylor was raped by Adam Provan of the Barking and Dagenham police during a blind date in 2010. Provan was convicted and jailed for nine years, but he appealed his conviction and obtained a retrial where he was convicted again for six counts of rape of another police officer between 2003 and 2005, and two counts of rape for his assault on Lauren Taylor.
It’s no different anywhere else: predators seek out positions of authority and power to obtain an advantage over their victims.
In Texas, 29 year old former police officer Hector Aaron Ruiz received a 20 year sentence in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to raping a woman during a 2019 traffic stop. And you thought getting a ticket was rough!
Officer Andrew “Scott” Selby of the Lancaster Police was charged in May 2024 with rape and sexual assault connected with his assault of two underage girls, along with the attempted rape and sexual assault of a third victim three decades beforehand. Selby was the lead investigator on the rape case of one of the victims, who had been raped by another man. Being the sex predator that he is, Selby decided he would also rape the victim.
In Maryland, Officer Ryan Macklin was conducting a traffic stop when he allegedly raped the woman he had stopped. He and Hector Aaron Ruiz will potentially be able to compare notes on their technique.
Albuquerque, New Mexico is our next stop, because Officer Leon Martin was sued for allegedly raping a DWI suspect he’d previously met on another call-community outreach at its finest, building relationships!-after he took her into custody on a DWI charge. Instead of taking her to jail, Martin allegedly took her to a secluded area, told her to go to the driver’s side of his patrol car, and then he raped her.
When she was finally taken to jail, the woman called her father and told him that she had not showered, and wanted to go straight to the hospital the next day when she made bail. Martin stated that the situation “escalated”:
“To be honest, you know I do regret it,” Martin told State Police investigators. “It did escalate. I could have prevented it. I should have prevented it. But it just, it escalated too far to what I wanted it to.”
We all hate escalations beyond our wants and desires, none more so than those of who are raped in secluded areas by police officers. Martin was arrested and charged, and he is facing up to 24 years in prison, but the victim is also suing Martin and the State of New Mexico.
In Oklahoma, where you can sit and talk with your honey lamb and watch the hawk making lazy circles in the sky, Officer Daniel Holtzclaw was convicted of 18 counts of raping and sexually assaulting eight black women while on duty. God knows what he did when he was off the clock! Holtzclaw apparently ran background checks on his victims in order to coerce them into sex with his knowledge of their prior criminal convictions, as you do when you’re a sexual predator with a badge.
Holtzclaw’s family is standing by their man.
We could write all day about the number of police officers who have raped and sexually assaulted the members of the public they are sworn to protect and serve, but there has to be a stopping point somewhere. I’ve got a podcast to record over at Investigations in Ritual Abuse, where I deal with the ritualized component of rape and sexual assault in religious groups.
The next time someone asks you why rape victims don’t report to the police 88% of the time, share this article with them. Perhaps the victims are trying to avoid a second rape at the hands of their lead investigator, as was the case with Andrew “Scott” Selby.
You aren’t safe from the Government Sex Predators.