Police Captain Taking Heat for Saying NYPD ‘Not Too Worried’ About Date Rape
A New York Police Department captain is in the hot seat after making a public statement regarding the issue of date rape. Essentially, the officer downplayed a series of recent sexual assaults. The department and Mayor Bill de Blasio are distancing themselves from the chatter.
Capt. Peter Rose, who oversees the 94th Precinct, sat down with DNAinfo New York regarding the rise of rape crimes in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. According to the website, sexual assaults have spiked by 62 percent in the neighborhood, but Rose seemingly dismissed the cases as something he and other officers are not “too worried about.”
“They’re not total-abomination rapes where strangers are being dragged off the streets,” Rose said. “If there’s a true stranger rape, a random guy picks up a stranger off the street, those are the troubling ones. That person has, like, no moral standards.”
In his conversation with DNAinfo, Rose added that the rise in rape cases is “not a trend that we’re too worried about,” which has some calling for him to step down from his precinct post.
The mayor’s office has stated that it does not support Rose’s comments. An official close to Rose said that the captain is “mortified” by the attention the matter has attracted and said that his statements were misheard. Women’s rights groups and other related organizations have banded together in their vocal criticism of Rose’s comments.
