Current Events > NYPD Officials Orchestrated Smear Campaign of Critic Using Details Of Her Rape

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https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/04/08/nypd-dana-rachlin-jeffrey-maddrey-brooklyn-john-chell-police-reform/?

Dana Rachlin, a prominent police reform advocate, once collaborated so closely with local precincts in North Brooklyn that she often worked out of the office of NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey who oversaw the patrol area at the time.

The nonprofit she founded, NYC Together, was deeply involved in community-based policing efforts that were a priority under former Mayor Bill de Blasio and brought reformers into partnership with police leadership. Rachlin worked intimately with NYPD officers to seek alternatives to incarceration for the mostly Black and brown youth caught up in the criminal justice system.

A trust grew so much so that when Rachlin said she was raped in October 2017, one of the first people she called was Maddrey, who urged her to file a police report, despite her reservations at the time, she told THE CITY.

Now Rachlin, 38, alleges in a federal lawsuit that police officials weaponized confidential details of that sexual assault to retaliate against her for her vocal criticism of violent policing and particularly of a controversial deputy inspector in charge of Brownsvilles 73rd Precinct.

In the lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of New York on Monday, Rachlin alleges that in mid-2020 NYPD officials cut off her access to the North Brooklyn precincts her nonprofit serves and told precinct leaders not to work with her.

Soon afterward, the lawsuit claims, confidential information about her alleged sexual assault was circulated to community advocates, mixed in with misinformation about the investigation and the notion that she fabricated the attack and falsely accused a Black man of rape.

Those same claims later surfaced in two anonymous letters sent to police officials, politicians and others, the lawsuit alleges.

"A few bad apples"

But they need more funding

Government sponsored gangs. How many more stories of cops being horrible human beings does it take for many people to not blindly worship the police?

Remember, the police were never defunded and no city ever even came close to it

When we say all cops, we mean ALL cops.