Sexual Violence and the Police: Understanding the Institution that is Supposed to Protect Us

David Carrick, a former police officer with the Metropolitan Police Department in the UK, was arrested in October of 2021. In January of 2023, he admitted to forty-nine offenses committed over a period of eighteen years, twenty-four of which were counts of rape. In total, Carrick has admitted to over eighty different instances of sexual misconduct. Unfortunately, David Carrick is not an example...