Vigil for Victims of Sex Crimes (8 images)

About 300 people marched through downtown Phoenix Thursday night in a silent candle lit procession to protest the way the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department, has conducted sexual assault and rape investigations. Two recent media reports, one by the East Valley Tribune, a newspaper in Mesa, AZ, and one by the Associated Press, concluded that the Sheriff's department has bungled more than 430 rape investigations. This comes on top of a US Department of Justice report that cited evidence of...
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About 300 people marched through downtown Phoenix Thursday night in a silent candle lit procession to protest the way the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department, has conducted sexual assault and rape investigations. Two recent media reports, one by the East Valley Tribune, a newspaper in Mesa, AZ, and one by the Associated Press, concluded that the Sheriff's department has bungled more than 430 rape investigations. This comes on top of a US Department of Justice report that cited evidence of wide spread racial profiling and the denial of prisoners' constitutionally guaranteed civil rights in the jails by the sheriff's department. The DoJ report was highly critical of Sheriff Arpaio and the Sheriff's Department.
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