More victims, this time by the NYPD, maybe

John Eligon has an article in The New York Times about a series of rapes by criminals you might not have suspected:

By the time Kofi Owusu pulled his yellow cab up to the front of an East Village apartment building, early one December morning in 2008, the passenger in the back seat had already vomited twice, once inside the taxi, he said in court recently. The passenger, a 27-year-old woman, asked for help getting out of the car. Mr. Owusu told her he could not help. Instead, Mr. Owusu called 911, leading two police officers, Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata, to cross paths with the woman. Prosecutors say Officer Moreno, 43, raped the woman in her apartment while Officer Mata, 28, stood guard.
How the woman came to be seemingly incapacitated in the back of Mr. Owusu’s taxi, and in need of assistance to get out of the car, was described on the first day of testimony in the officers’ trial in State Supreme Court in Manhattan. Prosecutors said surveillance footage showed that, after the officers initially helped the woman into her apartment, they returned three more times that night.
Among the first prosecution witnesses to testify were two friends of the woman who were at the party she held at Southpaw, a club in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on the evening of 6 December 2008, to celebrate her promotion at The Gap, where she was a fabric researcher and designer. The promotion required the woman to relocate to San Francisco, said Kendra Taylor, a former co-worker who was at the party.
The woman and her friends danced and drank at the bar, witnesses said. “Everybody was happy,” said Laure Simi, another friend who was at the party and testified. “It was a celebration. She was going away. She’s getting a new job. It’s good energy.” The festive mood was memorialized in photographs shown in court. In one, the woman, in a bright fuchsia top, is dipping to the right, holding a glass with a yellow liquid in her left hand, with her mouth open and two friends dancing behind her.
The joy, however, quickly subsided, Ms. Taylor explained, when the woman said she was feeling sick at about 11:45 p.m. and wanted to go home. Ms. Taylor said she escorted the woman, arm in arm, to the top of a staircase near the coat check and told her to wait there while she recovered the woman’s coat. “I didn’t find that she was intoxicated to the point where she was not coherent,” Ms. Taylor said.
In the meantime, Ms. Simi said, she saw the woman leaning against a wall while someone tried to hold her up. “You could definitely tell she was intoxicated,” Ms. Simi said.
The woman asked Ms. Simi to put her in a taxi, she said, so she escorted the woman outside, flagged down Mr. Owusu’s taxi and, not knowing the woman’s exact address, told him to take her to the Lower East Side. Ms. Simi said the woman left without her coat.
Mr. Owusu testified that one of the woman’s friends told him her address as she helped her into the taxi. But defense lawyers brought up Mr. Owusu’s grand jury testimony, in which he indicated that the woman directed him to her apartment and told him where to stop.
The defense was trying to establish that, even though the woman may have been intoxicated, she was coherent enough to think and have normal conversations. Officer Moreno’s lawyer has said that his client, a former alcoholic, was counseling the woman about her drinking problem that morning and that he had returned to her apartment at her request to check on her. They did not have sex, the defense has argued.
Mr. Owusu testified that as he turned the taxi onto Flatbush Avenue, the woman asked if he had a plastic bag she could vomit in. He did not, so he pulled over so she could stick her head out of the door to vomit, he said. A short time later, as they went over the Manhattan Bridge, Mr. Owusu said, the woman vomited in the car. When they arrived at her apartment, Mr. Owusu said, she asked him to help her out of the car, but Taxi and Limousine Commission rules prohibit him from doing so. He called 911 instead, and said, “I have somebody in my cab that is so drunk that I need assistance,” according to a recording of the call played in court. When the operator asked if the woman was passed out, he responded, “Yeah, something like that.”
About five minutes later, Officer Moreno and Officer Mata showed up, Mr. Owusu testified, and they helped her into the apartment. One of them brought out a $20 bill to pay him for the $17.40 fare, he said.

Rico says its the classic 'he said, she said' situation, but it do sound suspicious, and just because they're cops doesn't mean they didn't do it...