![]() The Post identified these officers through an exclusive analysis of the nation’s most comprehensive database of police arrests at Bowling Green State University, as well as a review of thousands of court documents, police decertification records and news reports. Read more about our methodology and how this series was reported here. He joked with her about “whipping your behind.” He showed her multiple photos of a young woman dressed only in lingerie. Within hours of meeting the girl, Vicknair wrapped his arm around her while they took a selfie. The day the 14-year-old met 53-year-old Vicknair was the day the officer began a months-long grooming process, prosecutors would allege. ![]() Four months later, police would arrest a man for sexually assaulting the girl. She didn’t know it was only the beginning. “And it’s gonna be worse, maybe, the next time,” Vicknair said, “because I’m gonna think in my head, ‘Oh, I got the power. ![]() “If I’m a young man that has done something wrong to a young lady and she doesn’t follow up and press the issue,” Vicknair said as his body camera recorded the conversation, “then I’m gonna go out and do it to another young lady.” He tried to coax her into changing her mind. But on this afternoon in May of 2020, it was Vicknair, a patrol officer with a troubled past, who knocked on the girl’s door. Under the police department’s rules, a case like this was supposed to be handled from the start by a detective trained in sex crimes or child abuse. Early that morning, the girl said, a 17-year-old friend had forced himself on her. His New Orleans Police Department cruiser was waiting outside, ready to take her to the hospital for a rape kit. He introduced himself as Officer Rodney Vicknair. “You really should think about it,” he said. And now there was a police officer in her living room. The 14-year-old did not want to go to the emergency room.
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