This page is just to show the absurdity of the legal system.
A lot of cops have been accused of attacking or raping accident victims and even rarely women who call 911.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/officer-sexually-assault-body-camera/
http://filmingcops.com/texas-police-officer-fired-sexually-assaulting-woman-duty/
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/video-exonerates-woman-charges-against-cop-911/
Here is video of a woman who called 911 several months ago and then got stomped by several cops, who then falsified a report to give the appearance of 'justifying' the attack.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E1JSfeYtTvA
A lot of cops, for whatever reason, like to attack women. Cops are known for using laws to target and harass vulnerable people, but women are targeted by cops more than other groups generally.
Daniel Holtzclaw was a police officer convicted of being a serial rapist. The evidence against him is fairly strong, but he has a vast machine of lawyers, publicists, investigators, even a celebrity fascist cranking out 'news' and websites that distort the facts to make him look innocent. He will probably be freed within a few years.
Esar Met was a refugee convicted of a violent child rape murder. The evidence against him is entirely fabricated. He will probably spend a long time in jail.
There are a lot of people like both Daniel Holtzclaw and Esar Met.
Daniel Holtzclaw Mystery
Daniel Holtzclaw is one of the few cops arrested and found guilty of serial rapes and sent to jail for a long stretch. A vast amount of money and resources are being expended by some unknown party or parties to free him. In fact you probably will not find a comparably funded effort on behalf of any other convicted person trying to get a retrial.
Who is spending all this money? Should they spend a tiny fraction of their budget on provably innocent people?
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/judge-upholds-sentence-holtzclaw/
There are a few unusual things about his case.
1) He is probably the only serial rapist who, when you search his name, the first page has several websites proclaiming him innocent.
https://www.holtzclawtrial.com/
http://justicefordanielholtzclaw.com/
http://freedanielholtzclaw.com/
https://www.uncufftheinnocent.org/daniel-holtzclaw
Somehow, several separate people or groups have outwitted the search engine algorithms to get that kind of website to the very top? It's very difficult to find any other incarcerated person who has that kind of funding and resources. 
Is it reasonable for a cop convicted of serial rapes to have a vast machine with incredible press contacts and substantial funds defending him post conviction, when many provably not guilty people have zero resources and no options?
2) Despite there being numerous, hundreds, probably thousands, of very strong rape cases against police around the country, his case was chosen as the one to focus on.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/dallas-police-fired-officer-blew-whistle-rapist-cop-2006/
Here is another example that got prosecuted, but with more evidence against a cop who was sent to help an accident victim but raped her.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/state-trooper-gets-just-6-months-for-raping-car-accident-victim
It almost looks like a set up where eventually he will be exonerated and the 'police commit rapes' narrative will be changed to 'police are victimized by false allegations' pseudo narrative.
Mike Ragusa was a cop who raped a lot of women, and against whom there was a huge amount of evidence.
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-cop-michael-ragusa-raped-dozens-new-documents-show-6386589
He went to jail for a while, was released, and appears to have hired a company to remove all references to him on the internet. Try searching for details of his rapes and you will find most of the articles removed.
It is likely Holtzclaw is guilty, but he doesn't seem like the right person to make an example of when there are so many cops like Ragusa, against whom there is much more evidence.
3) A lot of money is being spent to promote the view, to the public, that Holtzclaw is not guilty. Who is behind that effort? Only a few obvious possibilities come to mind and none of them reflect well on cops.
4) One type of news articles about his appeal is the "Holtzclaw Family Devastated After Former OKC Police Officer's Appeal Is Denied". Wait. What?
A prolific serial rapist files an appeal and major media takes sympathy for the rapist's family as their goal? Try to find any similar treatment of any other serial rapist, anywhere, ever, who was not a cop.
There have also been major media articles so sympathetic to him that they caused an uproar and had to be removed.
https://deadspin.com/how-sb-nation-published-their-daniel-holtzclaw-story-1761030353
5) He was convicted specifically of preying on vulnerable 'low status' women. The fact that his defense is extremely well funded and probably includes law enforcers as 'investigators' probably means they will target the victims as the weak link in the conviction. Glancing at the obvious resources of whoever is trying to 'exonerate' him, it's a pretty safe bet they will succeed.
Why are there no such resources available to non cops against whom there is much less evidence, sometimes absolute evidence of non guilt?
6) There is a 501c3 tax exempt charity that solicits funds to help the public by "PreventIng and overturning the Wrongful Conviction of Police Officers and Other innocent individuals."
https://www.uncufftheinnocent.org/
So far they have two beneficiaries of their largesse listed under "Our Aid Recipients". a) Daniel Holtzclaw and b) "police departments".
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Taking the other side of the argument, there is a serious problem with cases like this.
Eskimos famously have dozens of words for snow, but the United States only has one word for rape. Just as there are many kinds of snow, there are many kinds of rape.
Holtzclaw targeted women who specifically were easy to target because any rape accusations from them might seem less credible, women who may have been prostitutes, drug users etc.
If a person forces sex on a prostitute it is a rape, but no reasonable person would put that type of rape in the same category as, for example, the rape of a woman who is not promiscuous.
Both women, the prostitute and the regular woman were identical at birth, but for reasons of circumstance, education, poverty etc, they diverged, and it is generally considered much more offensive to rape a 'decent' woman than to rape a prostitute. Few people would disagree with that unless they are simply using rhetoric to defend the rights of prostitutes to restrict their 'rapes' to paying customers.
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Holtzclaw comes from a cop family, his father was a cop. But there is something more interesting. His mother, who was also a cop, is Japanese.
It's a common melting pot motif for a man to join an armed force, conquer a male foreign force and take a 'trophy' bride. People have been doing that for thousands of years. Psychologically it is a step that should occur in childhood, but for many people mating is a group sport well into adulthood, and those afflicted with that illness are aggressive vectors of their illness, often spending their entire life as 'soldiers' trying to force others to respect and follow them.
Individuals who follow that path have a signature footprint. They typically are proud of their various conquests, e.g. their military campaigning, but they take extraordinary steps to appear humble. They consider themselves guardians of some tradition, what they have been taught to consider a 'rite of passage'. Most importantly they routinely misjudge the line between natural and human authority. Like the scientist who wants to create Frankenstein, they have not yet learned a certain type of morality.
One article on Holtzclaw mentions his liking the quote "You do not earn respect, you take it". Most people would recognize that quote as a sign of pathology. Respect emanates, or is perceived, it is not an object to be extracted. But the same person who sees mating as a group sport, who wants to join a gang and 'conquer' so he can 'win' a bride, is the person who thinks respect also can be extracted by force. In other words Holtzclaw was taught to 'rape'. He was following his education properly.
In his mind, and in the minds of most cops who trade freedom for sex, he didn't commit a rape. 20 or 30 years ago almost nobody would have called it rape. A person might have called it 'abuse of power' but not rape.
There isn't really any question that it's improper to trade freedom for sex, but it's a head scratcher why he would be thoroughly investigated and sentenced to over 200 years for a 'lesser' form of rape, but cops who commit actual violent rapes of victims who are left much more injured do not even face investigation unless it is forced.
If he had kidnapped one of the women at gunpoint, raped her and killed her, then chopped the body up he probably would have gotten 40 or 50 years.
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Some of the Holtzclaw websites claim that they will provide evidence that Holtzclaw is not guilty, if only a person will read their lengthy recounting of evidence. If you actually do that, though, he looks guilty. The first item mentioned on one website is a 15 minute traffic stop. Seriously, who has ever been stopped for a traffic infraction for 15 minutes? In some places you can glance at a cops badge number as he is talking and he will let you off with a warning. That's a one minute stop. In the worst case he goes back to his car for two minutes, spends a minute blubbering nonsense then writes a ticket. That's a 5 minute traffic stop. A 15 minute traffic stop, involving a male cop and a female driver, that does not produce a traffic ticket, usually involves a sex act.
The Esar Met case, and many like it, are the opposite. The state presented a lot of evidence, but not a single bit of it indicates he is guilty, unless you don't examine it. The authorities kept most of the evidence secret, away from the public, so it couldn't be examined, but enough is available now to get a clearer picture of what federal and local law enforcers did to frame Esar Met.
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The central mystery is not whether Holtzclaw raped a few women, obliged them to 'provide' sex in exchange for not going to jail. It is about 98% certain he did that, a certainty higher than in most convictions.
The central mystery is why was he specifically targeted?
It would be very easy, in almost any city or town in the United States, and certainly in any poorer city, to send a lady cop out to drive around mildly drunk. She would be offered the same deal Holtzclaw seemed to offer women but there would be video, witnesses etc.
It's pretty widely known that this is a common process for police, and it would be easy to create thousands of very strong cases, like the Holtzclaw case but with solid evidence.
Why would police deliberately choose to pursue a weak case when an abundance of strong cases are available?
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It would be smarter to, at the very least, have some consistency in the stupidity of the legal system, or the U.S. will have as little credibility as Sicily in addressing more serious versions of the problem like https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/mar/12/slavery-sicily-farming-raped-beaten-exploited-romanian-women or even much worse examples in many developing countries.
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Holtzclaw, as long as he does not have a badge, is less dangerous than most who do. It's good his misconduct was pursued but the sentence makes little sense.
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There was little public discussion last fall when Miami commissioners voted unanimously to pay $550,000 to a 31-year-old working mom who had been kidnapped and raped by a city police officer in his patrol car.
But for 53 minutes in private before the vote, commissioners heard a disturbing earful from city lawyers, who mentioned dozens of other sexual assaults and a stunning breakdown of police hiring practices under former chief John Timoney.
The lawyers' concerns, which have never before been disclosed, provide a frightening backstage look at Florida's highest-profile police force. They stem from a lawsuit filed by a rape victim named Kenia Perez against the city over the actions of her attacker, ex-officer Michael Ragusa, who grew up in Fort Lauderdale.
"Both our officers and the City of Miami Beach police officers believed that there were dozens of people that he [raped]," assistant city attorney Henry Hunnefeld told commissioners in a closed-door meeting this past October 13. "Dozens."
The roots of the rape cases, which the FBI is investigating, date back to before Ragusa was hired — to the day in 2002 when former police chief Raul Martinez installed Willie F. Bell as a background investigator, apparently to get him off the streets, Hunnefeld said.
Bell had a dismal internal record as a cop. He'd been disciplined for using excessive force, neglect of duty, improper discharge of a firearm, and theft. He was also arrested for battery, falsifying public records, and official misconduct, but those criminal charges were dropped after Bell agreed to attend an anger management program.
"From the time [Bell] was selected," Hunnefeld told commissioners, "bad things happened... He is the most disciplined officer in the history of the city. Twenty-six times he was disciplined by our department."
The year after Bell's hire, Timoney became Miami's police chief. A tough former New York cop, he quickly became infamous for his handling of riots that shook the Magic City during meetings to discuss the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Bell remained at his post while the new chief led a push to recruit officers. As Timoney wrote in his 2003 "Blueprint for the Future" report, the focus was "not on how to improve the quality of the men and women on the MPD, but the urgent need to increase their quantity."
In the '80s and '90s, bad hires had led to scandal and embarrassment. Between 1990 and 2001, Miami paid nearly $18 million to resolve more than 110 federal and state lawsuits alleging brutality, misconduct, or unnecessary death caused by city police. And in 2001, more than a dozen officers were indicted for conspiring to cover up police shootings by planting evidence. Nine were later convicted.
Timoney pledged to restore the public's trust.
Then, in the early morning of March 19, 2007, 31-year-old Kenia Perez stepped off a county bus in Miami Beach on her way home from a ten-hour shift at a South Beach restaurant where she waited tables six days a week to support herself and her 5-year-old son.
Ragusa was there. He lived in Miami Beach and was driving his take-home patrol car in uniform. He called Perez over, forced her inside, drove a few blocks away, and raped her. He was arrested the next day.
The attack left lasting psychological scars on Perez, who no longer lives in the United States. She was afraid to be alone and suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder, the transcript says. Her name has never before been revealed, but her attorney, Barbara Heyer, said she wanted it known.
Ragusa pleaded guilty in 2008 to charges of rape and attempted rape for attacks on three women in Miami Beach — including Perez. He has served nearly five years of his ten-year prison sentence.
Miami police spokesman Major Delrish Moss said he was unaware of the city attorney's statements to commissioners that Ragusa is believed to have had dozens of other victims. "If there were dozens of cases, and I have never heard anyone allege this, the Miami Beach PD or the State Attorney's Office would be investigating rather than us. We were only the hiring and later firing agency with regard to [Ragusa's] employment," he said.
Perez filed her lawsuit against the city in 2010. Among other things, it alleged Timoney failed to institute any meaningful change. It also contended that, under the Dublin-born chief, the city failed to weed out officers like Ragusa with "dangerous propensities" that made them unfit for duty.
The transcript, uncovered by Broward Bulldog in cooperation with Miami New Times, discloses city attorneys believed that under Timoney, pressure was put on the department's psychologist to qualify recruits such as Ragusa who should not have been hired.
Another problem was Officer Bell. According to the city's attorneys, he gave a green light to hire Ragusa in 2004 despite admissions on an employment application of numerous incidents of illegal sexual activity and dishonesty.
In his presentation to the commission, Hunnefeld described Bell as uniquely unqualified for the important job of checking out recruits for a troubled police agency with a decades-old "reputation of having bad cops who do bad things."
Bell, a 26-year officer who retired in 2006, is now 55 years old. In an interview, he acknowledged his lengthy discipline record. He said drug dealers lodged most of those complaints in attempts to discredit him when he worked the streets in Liberty City and Overtown. He also confirmed he had approved Ragusa's hiring, adding he did so because "there was nothing negative in his background."
"I'm a scapegoat. I didn't hire a rapist. The guy became what he did," Bell said. "Things were kept hush-hush, and it was 'blame Willie Bell.'"
Timoney, who resigned in 2009, is working as a police consultant in Bahrain. He did not respond to emailed requests for comment.
The ex-chief was deposed in the case in March 2011. Attorney Heyer asked if he was satisfied that the department's hiring process, including background checks, was being done appropriately after he became chief. "Yes," Timoney said.
Yet according to the transcript, psychologist Dr. Mark Axelberd, who was hired by the city to evaluate applicants, found Ragusa to have "a problem with impulse control" and classified him borderline. Axelberd had warned that "this is not somebody you'd want to hire," Hunnefeld said.
Bell approved Ragusa even though he had been rejected by numerous other police agencies, including the Broward Sheriff's Office, Miami-Dade, North Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Cooper City, Hunnefeld said. His acknowledgment of past improprieties also should have been caught. "I have never put sexual assaults on my applications," Hunnefeld told commissioners. "However, Michael Ragusa did. How that slips through the fingers of the investigator, I am not sure."
Ragusa went on to do plenty of damage in a three-year career as a Miami police officer. In addition to the rapes, he was involved in numerous allegations of excessive force. "I have so far defended four lawsuits about Ragusa and his excessive force," Hunnefeld said.
All of that information would have made defending the lawsuit impossible. "We're cooked," city attorney Julie Bru said as she presented a recommendation for settlement.
"A case with this set of facts is something that a jury could do very bad things with," Hunnefeld added.
Besides the $550,000 for Perez, the city also paid $62,500 to settle a damage suit filed by another of Ragusa's rape victims. That woman received much less after the city "uncovered that she had been a prostitute and that she had actually done some other things that were difficult."
The topic of how many other borderline candidates were hired by the city was not discussed at the settlement meeting. The city no longer evaluates recruits that way. But the Miami Police Department remains a focus of controversy.
The Miami Herald reported in November that the Justice Department is investigating possible civil rights violations in the deaths of seven black men shot by city officers between July 2010 and February 2011.
Meanwhile, city legal advisor George Wysong informed commissioners that police leaders had a takeaway from their experience with Ragusa. "This case has impressed upon them the significance of — you know, you may think that the background unit is a place to put your problem child. Now they understand the consequences of a little decision like that," Wysong said.
The lesson should come in handy.
One week after agreeing to pay $550,000 to settle with Perez, Miami City Manager Johnny Martinez lifted a two-year freeze on hiring new police officers.