Article of the Week

          For this week's article, "She wanted to be a cop until a cop did this," the city of La Cruces ,N.M. finally agrees to pay 3 million dollars to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman who was sexually assaulted by a police detective. The woman was working as a high school intern for the department. aspiring to be a detective herself.  The police detective took Diana Guerrero along with him to visit a crime scene in 2011. Instead of taking Guerrero directly back to the station, he took another route and stopped at a secluded area and raped her. Diana Guerrero never thought that someone in a badge would be capable of doing this. She no longer dreams of becoming a police detective after this incident. The ironic thing about this is that detective, who was sentenced to 9 years in prison, was assigned to a unit that focused on child abuse and sex crime. The significance of this article is that you can never be so sure about someone who is in uniform. This article shows that even the individuals who fight crime are capable of committing a crime. This police detective caused  this young intern to abandon her dream of becoming a detective. This article shows us that you can never be so sure about the people you are in company with.