In Lavergne, Tennessee, USA, there was a case of a sex scandal at the local police department.
In this case, former female police officer Hall claimed that she was coerced and manipulated by eight male colleagues to become a victim of "sexual exploitation", and has now filed a lawsuit in federal court to expose the scandal in the police sector.
After receiving reports of a sex scandal, the police department urgently conducted an internal investigation into the police station, and soon found that several police officers were involved.
As a result of the investigation, a number of officers were found to have been sexually exploited, five of whom were fired and three were suspended, and the police department lost 12% of its police strength as a result.
As a representative of gender equality rights, Hall's report has also attracted the attention of the American media, and the matter has been hotly searched on the Internet in the United States for nearly a week, and Hall has become the focus of attention.
So what exactly happened in this case?
Why did it lead to the dismissal of 5 officers and the suspension of 3 people, and the loss of 12% of the police force in the police department?
1. Perpetrators of "sexual stripping".
Hall said he was seen as "prey" in the police station, sexualized and exploited.
Hall is an investigator in the police department, and after she was transferred to the police department in 2019, she was sexually exploited in the police department, and even between 2019 and 2020, these sexual exploitations did not stop.
After the scandal came to light in March, Hall was pressured and threatened by the police department, saying that she had been abused, and that the abuse was still happening in front of her family, so she had no choice but to give up, so she filed a lawsuit in federal court.
In the lawsuit, Hall accused the three police supervisors involved and the municipality of Lavergne, she said that the three police supervisors had improper sexual relations with her between 2019 and 2020, and she did not know the identities of the three supervisors at the time, but she realized that in her work, there were three supervisors who were obviously more tolerant and partial to her, and after she noticed these anomalies, she tried to end the improper relationship between her and the three supervisors, but the three supervisors did not allow her to do so, so she asked her superiors for help。
But with her boss, she too
She didn't get any help, so she turned to the FBI in Tennessee, USA, and in the FBI's investigation, she found out that her boss and the three supervisors were inextricably linked, and her boss not only did not help her, but used her sexual relationship to blackmail her, saying that if she dared to make the matter public, she would be fired.
In Hall's lawsuit, she argues that female employees in police departments are "prey" and are treated as sexualized and exploited.
In the lawsuit, Hall also said that male employees in the police station would "sexually provoke" and "sexually insult" female employees, and these behaviors are also commonplace in the police department, and female employees can only choose to swallow their anger in order to be able to make a difference in the police department.
In the police station, female employees will also have "sexual discussions" with each other, and these behaviors are also common in the police department, and it is common for male employees to sexually harass female employees, and these sexual harassment behaviors are also one of the "privileges" in the police world.
In Hall's lawsuit, it is also alleged that a police supervisor said that he could promote his pillow man to a police officer, and the police supervisor did not lie, he did promote a police officer for his pillow person, and this police supervisor was Hall's boss, and the police supervisor also promoted his ex-girlfriend to a police officer, he called his ex-girlfriend a "monster", and this ex-girlfriend is also an investigator in the police department, so Hall realized that this ex-girlfriend is likely to be his boss.
Hall's improper relationship with the police department also affected her work, and she made many mistakes in her work, but her boss did not criticize and punish her, but tolerated her to start over, and these mistakes also led to the lag and slow progress of the investigation.
In Hall's lawsuit, it was also pointed out that she knew that her boss was a colonel and her ex-boyfriend was a police supervisor, so her ex-boyfriend was one of the eight supervisors in the police department, and these eight supervisors also sexually exploited her, and her ex-boyfriend also used his authority to promote his friend to a police officer, Hall's improper relationship in the police station also affected her life, and her ex-boyfriend beat her after learning that she was going to end a relationship with him, and finally she ended her relationship with her ex-boyfriend in 2019。
During this time, she also got to know her husband, and her husband is an upright person, who also comforted and helped her after learning that his wife had been mistreated in her life before 2019, and Hall's husband is also her confidant, and she is very grateful to her husband during this period, it is with her own husband that she was able to withstand the pressure of the family and expose this case.
Second, the importance of the media.
As a representative of gender equality and gender rights, Hall's report has attracted the attention of the American media, and the matter has been hot on the Internet in the United States for nearly a week, and Hall has become the focus of attention.
While the media plays a vital role in exposing and reporting on similar scandalous cases, it can drive social attention and change in sexual exploitation and misconduct, and Hall's lawsuit also calls for an end to abuse, arguing that sexual abuse in police departments has been around for a long time and that someone needs to stand up and end it.
And in Hall's lawsuit, she also said that in the police department, female employees will be sexually exploited after being regarded as sexualized, and in the police department, female employees will also be discriminated against by male employees, male employees will think that female employees can make a difference in the police because of their charm and appearance, and this perception also makes female employees very aggrieved in the police department, but at the same time, she has no way to make a difference in the police community, so she called on the American police community to recruit more female police officers, so that gender equality in the police department becomes more important。
But in the United States, there are also people who think that sexual relations between police officers and police officers are not a big deal and should not be fired because of these relationships, and these people think that the relationship between male and female employees in the police department is a private act, not a public act, and therefore should not be punished, but this kind of behavior is also very wrong, because sexual exploitation in the police department will get public attention, and people will also pay attention to and discuss the situation of sexual exploitation in the police department.
Sexual exploitation in police stations is unethical, and police officers are in police stations to maintain the law and public safety, not to find sexual partners in police stations, so sexual exploitation in police stations is also opposed by the U.S. government, and for victims of sexual exploitation, the U.S. government should also provide more support and protection mechanisms to help them cope with public pressure and psychological distress.
In the police service in the United States, there is still a phenomenon of gender discrimination, and the salary of female police officers is often lower than that of male police officers, which has also become an urgent problem to be solved in the US government and the police community, so it is necessary to strengthen the publicity and practice of gender education and gender rights.
epilogue
In this case, Hall stood up as a victim and exposed the scandal in the police department, and her report also punished the officers in the police department with dismissal and disciplinary measures, which also led to a 12% loss of police force in the department.
The case also highlights the problems of internal management and ethical standards in the police department, and the need for stricter supervision and training to prevent similar incidents from happening again.