
Hunter College Group Slammed For Booting NYPD Sex Crimes Chief
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'City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and other city officials blasted a Hunter College women's group that booted the NYPD’s top sex and hate crimes official from a panel on sexual harassment against women in the subway system.
Deputy Chief Michael Osgood, the commander of the NYPD’s Special Victims Division and its Hate Crimes Task Force, was dumped from the panel just a day before the Dec. 5 event, which also included experts from the Manhattan Borough President’s office, the National Organization for Women, Hollaback! and John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Osgood’s ouster was the result of a complaint by the Hunter Women’s Rights Coalition that the NYPD was a violent organization whose members rape women and brutalize New Yorkers, DNAinfo reported last week.
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Queens City Councilman Peter Vallone, chairman of the public safety committee, said he could barely contain his anger when he read the "On the Inside" column, which appeared on the same day slain NYPD officer Peter Figoski was laid to rest.
"This group did not deserve the presence of the NYPD," Vallone said. "A hero officer, a father of four daughters, was killed protecting New Yorkers just days after these nursery school brats took this position."'
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