Posted on 05/11/2018 1:20:14 PM PDT by Gamecock
A new Kansas law makes it a crime for police to have sex with people they pull over for traffic violations or detain in criminal investigations.
The new law bans sexual relations "during the course of a traffic stop, a custodial interrogation, an interview in connection with an investigation, or while the law enforcement officer has such person detained."
Now, you may be asking, wasn't that illegal already?
Kansas was one of 33 states where consensual sex between police and people in their custody wasn't a crime.
That came as a surprise to members of the House Judiciary Committee, who got the new law passed in a bundled bill with several other law-enforcement measures. Gov. Jeff Colyer signed it into law Thursday.
Rep. Cindy Holscher, D-Olathe, introduced the bill.
She said it spun off the case of Lamonte McIntyre, a Kansas City, Kan., man released last year after spending 23 years in prison for a double murder he didn't commit.
The investigation in that case led to multiple affidavits alleging that the detective who made the arrest, Roger Golubski, had a long history of coercing sex from women in Kansas City's black community by threatening to arrest them or their relatives if they didn't comply.
Holscher said she was also moved by a case in New York where a teenager claimed she had been raped by two police officers in the back of their van, but no charges were filed because the officers claimed the sex was consensual and therefore legal.
Kansas law previously said "there shouldn't be sexual relations between police and persons in jail, but it didn't say anything about if they had been stopped on the streets or were in their custody," Holscher said.
"This helps the person who was detained in their neighborhood or stopped for a ticket, that type of thing," she said.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle embraced the change, saying it was long overdue.
"Those of us who have been there for a few years thought it was something that had already been taken care of in the law," said Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, an attorney and member of the Judiciary Committee.
He credited Holscher, who took office last year, for bringing a new perspective that uncovered the loophole.
"She called me about this. I said, 'You mean it's not against the law?' She said, 'No, it's not,'" Carmichael said. "I checked with the revisor (of statutes) and it was not specifically against the law in Kansas."
Getting away with sex on the job would be a lot harder for police officers now, because most stops are recorded on body cameras, said Rep. John Whitmer, R-Wichita, and also a member of the Judiciary Committee.
But he said it could happen and it's good to have a law in place if it does.
"Most officers are great guys and women who are working hard, but there's always the one," he said.
You mean up until now it was “If this cruiser’s rockin’ then don’t come knockin’!”...?
You need a law for that???
Next, they’ll say it’s illegal to shot unarmed youths. /s
Well, there goes sign-ups for the Police Academy!
Lol, I LOVE that movie!
Laz,
Did you know about this career opportunity?
Well it’s too late now.
Where’s George Castanza.
“You mean I shouldn’t have done that?”
I thought it was common sense to go home and do your significant other if you were a cop. My how stupid so much of society has become.
I’d expect more just to be mocking.
I think this new repressive policy is due to the Puritan spirit brought in by Trump.
Wasn’t it Robert Byrd who had sex in the backseat of the car while on the way to the woman’s execution? Whoever, it turned my stomach when I read it. Democrat, I remember.
I knew there had to be a reason to vote Bolshekrat.
Why do they need a law? Because stupid people don’t follow any rules of conduct or morality
Trump is a great Christian example actually, he is a believer in Jesus Christ now, so yeah, a struggling “Puritan” just like the rest of us; believing sinners and followers of Christ.
The world cannot grasp it.
#35 was meant for you.
Great to be a Kansas cop. Most cops put on the uniform and go to work. Kansas cops call putting on the uniform getting dressed for party time.
How about while waiting at a red light?
“New law: Kansas cops can’t have sex during traffic stops”
THAT’S the final straw! I’m quitting the force!
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