For decades, former Kansas City, Kansas detective Roger Golubski committed heinous crimes against members of the community he was sworn to protect, using his status as a police officer “to violate the civil rights of two women by rape, kidnapping and sexual assault.” KCUR 89.3, a NPR-affiliate, interviewed experts, including CPE co-founder Dr. Tracie Keesee, who say federal and departmental inaction in this case is emblematic of a larger problem: a lack of accountability for police officers who harm the most vulnerable in our society. An excerpt from Dr. Keesee’s interview with KCUR:
The accusations at the heart of Golubski’s case date back decades, and reflect a culture of system-wide inaction among everyone who knew of his abuses and chose not to do anything until now, said Dr. Tracie Keesee, a former New York Police Department deputy commissioner and co-founder of the Center for Police Equity.
“And we wonder why the Black community as a whole has zero trust in being made safe and why the systems themselves, which were not necessarily designed to protect the most vulnerable, are always in question,” Keesee said.
Read the article at KCUR’s website.