Officer Thomas Tolstoy / Rapists on Patrol

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Rapists on patrol, Officer Thomas Tolstoy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Officer Thomas Tolstoy, a narc in Officer Jeffrey Cujdik’s increasingly notorious shake-down squad, used the opportunity of his team’s repeated evidence-less hyperviolent paramilitary drug raids to repeatedly pull women in the houses being raided into side rooms in order to sexually assault them . At least two women have come forward independently so far to testify against Tolstoy. Tolstoy has not yet been charged with any crime; the department’s response so far has been to reassign this accused serial rapist to an easy desk job for the past three weeks. "If these were normal citizens, and not cops, they’d have been indicted by now.") http://radgeek.com/gt/2009/06/11/the-police-beat-2/


Again a woman alleges indecent assault by same cop during a narcotics raid

By BARBARA LAKER & WENDY RUDERMAN
Philadelphia Daily News

[e-mail] 215-854-5933

THE BURLY narcotics officer yanked down the young woman's underwear as they stood in the doorway of her second-floor Frankford apartment, she said.

The officer - one of 10 who participated in a drug raid of the apartment downstairs - allegedly jammed his fingers into her vagina. When she tried to pull away, he grabbed her hard enough to rip her shirt, she said.

The penetration of his fingers was so forceful that she began to bleed. She said she thought he had scratched her - or worse, caused internal damage.

A few hours later, she ended up at Episcopal Hospital. Nurses ordered a rape kit and alerted the police Special Victims Unit.

That night, Oct. 16, 2008, the woman didn't know the name of the officer.

But the police Internal Affairs Bureau had a hunch:

Officer Thomas Tolstoy was immediately taken off the street.

"Despite the lack of photo identification at the scene, there was other information that caused us to narrow the scope," said Internal Affairs Chief Inspector Anthony DiLacqua. "We had evidence presented to us that gave us reason to look at more closely than other officers."

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Naomi is one of at least three women who say Tolstoy fondled, groped or sexually violated them during drug raids.

Lady Gonzalez, 29, of Kensington, and Dagma Rodriguez, 33, of West Kensington, have alleged that Tolstoy stroked their breasts during raids. The Daily News reported their allegations on June 1. Videos of their accounts were posted on the Daily News Web site at philly.com.

None of the three women has a criminal record. The women don't know each other and spoke with the Daily News independently only after reporters tracked them down.

Tolstoy, 35, a 10-year-veteran of the force who has been with the Narcotics Field Unit since December 2002, is one focus of a growing FBI and police probe into allegations of police misconduct.

The alleged misconduct was first reported by the Daily News in February with complaints that Tolstoy's fellow squad member, Officer Jeffrey Cujdik, sometimes lied on search-warrant applications to get into suspected drug homes.

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1. What sick fuck this Tolstoy is

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Some individuals gravitate towards "law enforcement" for the blanket power that goes with the

position and the system.

More than 30 years ago, I was enrolled in a private women's college. The school had private security, first Pinkerton, then the Burns Agency. One "guard" was an ex-Green Beret, in his thirties.

One night, he "caught" a guy I had secreted in a borrowed room, and he took my name down for a future judicial hearing. Busted.

The next night at 4 a.m., in my own room, a knock. It was the guard. He told me that he was going to do me "a favor": He would take my report and "lose it" in the paperwork. I'd still have a hearing but the details would be missing. I was standing in the hall with him, in nothing but a long T-shirt. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, like the reciprocity. He didn't ask and I didn't offer.

Less than two months later, the same "guard" attacked another student in a darkened parking lot, employing techniques of martial arts, in an attempt to rape her. And fortunately she had the courage to report him, got him arrested, and fired.

With police and security, some come into the system, seeking to use it to their advantage and then there are some who become corrupt because of the culture and the system that encourages cynicism and meritocracy built on citations. Some individuals are actually there with the illusion of justice and safety. Bless them hearts but it can't be sustained.