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Cop Resigns, but Why, Exactly?

By AAN Staff
november 4, 2002  09:59 am
Cop Resigns, but Why, Exactly?
Renatta Frazier, a rookie Springfield police officer, left the force under a cloud because of her alleged failure to prevent the rape of the daughter of a fellow officer. Dusty Rhodes looks into the resignation and finds more questions than answers. Only the third black female ever to join the Springfield, Ill., police force, Frazier admits she never tried to "be invisible," as she was advised. Instead, Rhodes describes her as alternately "frank, funny and tenderhearted," or, if you were inclined against her, "abrasive, irreverent and lacking in military bearing." Associate Publisher Sharon Whalen tells AAN News the story "made the city shake" and revealed that the alleged rape had happened before the call to police was even made.
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