“More than two decades before Jeffrey Epstein took his own life, a woman went into a California police station and filed one of the earliest sex-crime complaints against him: that he groped her during what she thought was a modeling interview for the Victoria’s Secret catalog.”
While I agree that no woman should be groped (or further attacked) simply for trying out for a job, expecting the police to give a damn might be taking things a bit far, at least in that part of the country.
For the sake of brevity, let us assume that she reported the groping because she was serious about going to court. That being the case, whether it was a felony or misdemeanor at the time, the detective should have written the case under the proper penal code. It doesn’t appear that this would have been a lengthy report. He also should have attempted to make contact with Epstein. If he was unsuccessful, which would be normal, he then should have walked the case over to the District Attorney’s office and let them make the decision on whether or not to have a judge sign a warrant. And 22 years later, no one could point to the detective and said he didn’t do anything with the case.