Police official cited for remark (Said sexual assaults part of neighborhood "courting ritual")

[Ian David]

Police official cited for remark
Dunford is sent to sensitivity training

By Michael Levenson and Daniel M. Peleschuk, Globe Correspondent | July 21, 2007

Superintendent in chief Robert P. Dunford, a 37-year veteran of the Boston Police Department who was promoted last week to second in command, has been reprimanded and sent to sensitivity training after acknowledging that he called a recent series of sexual assaults in East Boston part of a neighborhood "courting ritual."

Dunford apologized yesterday, calling his remark "thoughtless and ill- conceived."

"I wish to sincerely apologize for the comment and make it clear that it in no way reflects who I am as a police officer or as a person," Dunford said in a statement released by the department. "I am genuinely remorseful and regret making a statement that lacked any forethought."

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He made the remark during a meeting Thursday of about 50 officers who were reviewing reports of seven sexual assaults in the last three months in the rapidly diversifying Italian-American neighborhood, where Latinos now make up about 40 percent of the population. At least some of the assaults were reported by Hispanic women, police said.

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Duhhh... groping and fondling women is how we find mates in my family.

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