The Rape Squad Files: Turnaround for a Troubled Unit--Rape Unit....
Craig R. McCoy.
- Philadelphia Inquirer, 2003.
- SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 75, Institutions, 1522-3256; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: The Rape Squad Files: Turnaround for a Troubled Unit--Rape Unit..., June 22, 2003; pp. A1+.
"The Police with the Philadelphia Sex Crimes Unit told Katie she'd imagined the whole thing. They said her friend's father had not molested her during a sleepover in 1996. They sent Katie, 12, on her way. Years later, the phone rang at Katie's home. It was the police. They were reopening her case. Philadelphia police began making hundreds of such calls in 2000. It was an unprecedented step for a big-city police force." (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) This article profiles a rape squad that went from being among the nation's worst to making more "rape arrests than such larger cities as Los Angeles and Houston."