Cry Rape: The True Story of One Woman's Harrowing Quest for Justice by Bill Lueders

Cry Rape: The True Story of One Woman's Harrowing Quest for Justice by Bill Lueders

Author:Bill Lueders [Lueders, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: ePub Bud (www.epubbud.com)
Published: 2011-11-26T05:00:00+00:00


19

Losing Battles

“Like it or not, we are a society of rules. We set expectations for behavior, and prescribe consequences when these are violated. This is why we have police departments, to enforce the rules we have established. To this end, police have tremendous power—the power to arrest, to detain, to use deadly force. Because the police have so much power, it makes sense that police departments have their own set of rules governing how officers and supervisors are expected to behave.”

Thus began my opening remarks before the Madison Police and Fire Commission on October 15, 1998. They were the same words I had planned to use four months earlier, when hearings on my complaint against Riley were originally slated. Now, of course, the matter before the PFC was much narrower and harder to prove. I cited the Madison Police Department’s rule that officers “tell the truth at all times and under all circumstances, whether under oath or otherwise.” This was the obligation Riley was under the previous February, when he denied knowing about Patty’s letters. I intended to show this was not a true statement, since Riley had received these letters and discussed them with at least two others: Woodmansee and Captain Jeff LaMar. Moreover, just days before my call, Riley had spoken to two health-care professionals in response to issues I had raised, which were the same as those in Patty’s letters.

“Lieutenant Riley’s peers will affirm that he is a good and distinguished officer,” I told the commission, Patty seated at the table beside me. “I don’t dispute that. But I believe Lieutenant Riley did lie to me.

He told me something that was untrue in order to cover his involvement 139



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