丑闻：警察探索者项目

那年春天，他和他们一起去度假。

He vacations with them that spring.

所以，当他们得知海蒂生活中的另一个男人真实身份时，那种震惊与背叛感可想而知。

So imagine the shock and the betrayal that they feel when they learn who the other guy in Heidi's life really was.

他是另一名印第安纳波利斯警察局的警官。

He's another IMPD officer.

而且不仅仅是普通警官，他正是负责探险者项目的那个人。

And not just any officer, it was the man who ran the Explorer program.

那个和他们同住、一起度假的人——丹尼尔·博尔曼。

The man who lived with them and vacationed with them, Daniel Bohlman.

2016年1月，丹尼尔的妻子提出了离婚。

In January 2016, Daniel's wife filed for divorce.

那时他正住在海蒂的家人家里，但这场离婚绝非和平分手。

That's when he was staying with Heidi's family, but this was no amicable divorce.

到了五月，他因涉及对即将离婚的妻子及家人实施十余项家庭暴力指控而被捕。

In May, he ends up getting arrested on more than a dozen charges tied to domestic abuse against his soon to be ex and family.

有些源于几年前发生的事件。

Some stemming from incidents that happened years earlier.

她告诉警方，他一直暴力且控制欲强，强迫她像狗一样叫，殴打她，将她推撞到墙上，用配枪威胁她，甚至曾将枪口对准他们熟睡的女儿。

She tells police that he had been violent and controlling, forcing her to bark like a dog, punching her, shoving her into walls, threatening her with his service weapon, even pointing it at their sleeping daughter.

她说，在海蒂去世后，情况变得更糟，丹尼尔承认他们曾有染，之后他就彻底崩溃了。

And she says it got worse after Heidi died, that Daniel admitted that they had been involved, and he just spiraled.

她离开是因为害怕他接下来会做什么。

She left because she feared what he would do next.

所以在海蒂十一月去世到他五月被捕之间，这家伙一直在崩溃。

So in the time between Heidi's death in November and then his arrest in May, dude had been unraveling.

他调到了另一个职位，而这又被他视为惩罚；接着他的妻子离开了他，警局里开始流传他和海蒂有关系的消息。

He moved to that different position, which again, he saw his punishment, then his wife left him and word was starting to spread around the station that he had a relationship with Heidi too.

根据丹尼尔的说法，那些只是谣言。

Now according to Daniel, those were just rumors.

他说这些谣言是由弗朗西斯科和其他几名警员散布的。

He says started by Francisco and a couple of other officers.

他告诉妮娜，是他们联系了他的前妻，并在她心中种下了这个想法。

He told Nina that they were the ones who contacted his then wife and planted this idea in her head.

他说他从未向他的前妻或任何人暗示过他和海蒂有关系。

He says that he never implied that he and Heidi were involved to his ex or to anyone else.

但根据我们所知，海蒂告诉朋友，她们相信她和丹尼尔有关系，而这一点丹尼尔予以否认。

But based on what we know Heidi told friends, they believed that she and Daniel were involved, which again, Daniel denies.

他告诉我们，他把海蒂当作朋友和导师，但坚称他们之间没有任何浪漫或性关系。

He told us he cared about Heidi as a friend and mentor, but insists that nothing between them was romantic or sexual.

好的。

Okay.

但为什么一个成年男性会和他项目里一个十几岁的女孩做朋友？

But why is a grown man friends with a teenage girl in his program?

我的意思是，他们相遇时她大概才16岁。

I mean, she would have been, like, 16 when they met.

对。

Right.

在印第安纳州，16岁是合法同意年龄。

Which in Indiana, 16 is the age of consent.

但谁在乎呢？

But who cares?

是啊。

Yeah.

毕竟还是未成年人。

Like, still a minor.

他仍然处于权威地位。

He's still in a place of authority.

对不起。

Like, I'm sorry.

他说什么都没发生。

And he's saying nothing happened.

所以，我同意。

So, like, I agree.

比如，你不应该和一个16岁的孩子做朋友，尤其是当你自己也说他处于权力地位的时候。

Like, should not be friends with a 16 year old, especially when, like, you're saying, he's in a position of power.

但丹尼尔说，他觉得和所有年长的探险者都很亲近，他发誓他和海蒂只有两次短暂地单独相处，就是离开会议的时候。

But Daniel says that he felt close to all of the older explorers, and he swears that he and Heidi were only alone twice briefly, like, as they left meetings.

那为什么海蒂要告诉她的朋友们，让他们以为他和海蒂在约会呢？

So why is Heidi telling her friends things to make them believe that he and Heidi are dating?

丹尼尔告诉我们，他也不确定是什么让她产生了这种印象。

Daniel told us that he's not sure what gave her that impression.

也许她误解了他开玩笑的行为，他说他

Maybe she misread his goofing around, something he says he

对每个人都这样。

did with everyone.

但如果你作为一名监管人员，对受你照顾的未成年人开玩笑，让她误以为你们有恋爱关系。

But if you're goofing around as a supervisory officer gives a minor in your care the impression that she has a relationship with you.

这才是更大的问题。

That's like the bigger problem.

对吧？

Right?

嗯。

Yeah.

嗯。

Yeah.

你才是问题所在。

You're the problem.

违规。

Breach.

我敢保证，那些嬉闹行为极其不当。

And I guarantee that the goofing around that's happening is highly inappropriate.

无论如何，

Either way,

丹尼尔基本上把这一切都归咎于弗朗西斯科和其他警察。

Daniel basically blames Francisco and the other cops for all of this.

他说他记录了所发生的一切。

He says he documented what was happening.

当他得知最初负责海迪案件的侦探中有人可能与弗朗西斯科有牵连时，他就把这份备忘录层层上报。

And when he learned that one of the initial detectives working Heidi's case might have ties to Francisco, he like sends this memo up the chain.

他把自己视为好人，而我们知道这一点，是因为他发给妻子的短信。

He saw himself as the good guy, and we know that because of text messages that he sent his wife.

这些短信后来成为了他因家庭暴力被捕的合理理由宣誓书的一部分。

Texts that would later become part of the probable cause affidavit for his domestic violence arrest.

2016年4月6日，他发短信给她，说：‘我会成为英雄，成为揭发警察腐败的举报人。’

On 04/06/2016, he texted her, quote, I'll be a hero, a whistleblower, fighting police corruption.

否则，我也没什么可失去的了。

And if not, I have nothing to lose.

你夺走了我所有努力的成果。

You've taken everything I've ever worked for.

他夺走了我唯一的朋友。

He took my only friend.

然后在2016年5月9日，他说：‘现在，我只想去那里，有个警察的名字我不会说出来，叫安·奥尔莫斯，然后一枪打死他们。’

And then on 05/09/2016, he says, quote, right now, I'm only interested in going to there's a he says another cop's name that I'm not gonna say, Anne Olmos and putting a bullet in their heads.

我愤怒至极。

I'm furious.

这个部门失败了。

This department failed.

这个城市需要更多死去的警察。’

This city needs more dead cops, end quote.

这些信息是他的妻子联系警方的主要原因。

Those messages are a big reason that his wife contacted police.

他的沟通变得越来越具有威胁性。

Like, his communications were becoming more threatening.

这些内容我直接从法律文件中获得，但丹尼尔告诉我们，他并没有写这些话。

And those, I got straight from a legal document, but Daniel told us that he didn't write them.

当然。

Of course.

那么，请问，丹尼尔，是谁发的？

Then please, Daniel, who did?

他把责任推给前妻，或者说是她身边的人，说她能接触到他的iMac，可能发了那些消息。

He blames his now ex or, like, someone close to her says that she had access to his iMac and, like, she could have sent them.

这就是他的说法。

That's his story.

好吧。

Okay.

无论如何，在丹尼尔被捕后，他交了保释金，带着电子监控回家，等待针对家庭暴力指控的审判。

Anyway, after Daniel's arrest, he post bond and goes home on electric monitoring to await trial for the domestic violence charges.

但直到此时，海迪的案件、弗朗西斯科以及探索项目仍没有任何进展，因为他们始终无法进入海迪的手机。

And still, at this point, nothing had happened with Heidi's case or with Francisco or the explored program because they still have not been able to get into Heidi's phone.

直到2017年秋天，新技术面世，他们才终于破解了手机。

It isn't until fall twenty seventeen when new technology becomes available that they can finally crack it.

而他们发现的内容，清楚地揭示了弗朗西斯科为何不愿让他们看到他们的通信记录。

And what they find makes it clear why Francisco wouldn't want them to see their communications.

这显示了他有多么操纵，以及他们之间有多么频繁的联系。

It shows just how manipulative he had been and how much they had been in contact.

总计，在她去世前的一个半月里，他们通话超过300次，而在最后三天里发送了177条短信。

All told, they exchanged over 300 calls in the month and a half, just a month and a half before her death, and a 177 texts in the final three days.

我还没看过大多数内容。

Now I haven't seen most of them.

这起案件在印第安纳波利斯警察局已经结案，但他们仍扣留着大部分记录，包括许多短信。

This is a closed case with IMPD, but they're still withholding most of the records, including a lot of the texts.

听好了。

And listen.

多年来，我们与许多机构合作过。

We've worked with a lot of agencies over the years.

INPD 一直是最难获取记录的机构之一。

INPD has consistently been one of the hardest to get records from.

当我这么说‘最难’时，我的意思是根本不可能——我本不愿这么说，毕竟这是在我家门口的机构，但我与其他机构的关系要好得多。

And when I say hardest, I do mean impossible, which I hate to say about the agency that's in my own backyard, but I have way better relationships with other agencies.

我的天，为什么在这里就这么难呢？

Like, why the f does it need to be so hard here?

我们是不是在隐瞒什么？

Like, are we hiding something?

没错。

Right.

我想到的是，为什么不呢？

Like, my mind goes to, like, why not?

但在我能看到的信息中，包括一些来自 probable cause 诉状的内容，弗朗西斯科的语气从暧昧转变为暴怒。

But of the messages I can see, including some from a probable cause affidavit, Francisco's tone goes from, like, flirty to furious.

他责备她撒谎，对她关于另一名警员的说法进行心理操控，并要求知道他们之间的关系到底如何。

He berates her for lying and gaslights her about this other officer and demands to know where they stand.

在她去世的那天，他们一共通了三次电话。

They end up talking three times on the day that she died.

最后一次通话后，他疯狂地给她发消息，发的内容比如：‘你不能这样对我。’

And after the last call, he flooded her with messages, texting things like, you can't do this to me.

你不能。

You can't.

我现在就去你家，你会让我在你家人面前丢尽脸面。

I'm headed to your house right now, and you're gonna make me look so stupid in front of your family.

你让我觉得这一切都是我的错。

You make me feel like this is really all my fault.

比这些短信更引人注目的是，数据显示，弗朗西斯科和海蒂之间所有这些短信都在他用她的手机给丹尼尔打电话时被删除了。

And the one thing that's more interesting than the texts is the data showing that all of those messages between Francisco and Heidi were deleted around the time that he used her phone to call Daniel.

在短信被清除后，手机就被锁定了。

And after the messages were wiped, that is when the phone was locked.

因此，在海蒂去世两年多后的那年十一月，弗朗西斯科因重罪妨碍司法公正和轻罪计算机侵入被逮捕。

So that November, more than two years after Heidi's death, Francisco is arrested for felony obstruction of justice and misdemeanor computer trespass.

他和丹尼尔都被停职，停薪，并面临解雇，他们的案件正缓慢地进入司法程序。

Both him and Daniel are off the force, suspended without pay, facing termination as their cases begin to crawl through the court system.

所以我有点搞不清楚，真相到底是什么，或者曾经是什么。

So I'm kind of getting lost on, like, what the truth is or was.

我的意思是，海迪是和丹尼尔、弗朗西斯科，还是两人都有关系？

Like, was Heidi involved with Daniel or Francisco or both?

根据我们从法庭记录以及所有直接了解情况的人那里获得的信息，海迪似乎与这两位男性都有过关系。

So based on everything that we've learned from court records, from everyone we spoke to who had direct knowledge of the situation, it appears that Heidi was involved with both men.

嗯。

Mhmm.

这种动态——一个青少年，多个警察——令人遗憾地并不罕见。

And that kind of dynamic, like, one teen, multiple officers, is sadly not unusual.

这充分凸显了这些项目中某些成年人有多么 predatory（ predatory 应译为‘ predatory 的’，但中文习惯用‘ predatory 的’或‘具有掠夺性的’，此处语境下更自然的表达是‘多么 predatory’，但中文应转化为‘多么具有掠夺性’或‘多么恶劣’）。

I mean, really underscores how predatory some of the adults in these programs can be.

那警察在查她手机时，有没有找到海迪和丹尼尔之间的短信？

And did police find any texts between Heidi and Daniel when they got into her phone?

这里有个有趣的地方。

So here's what's interesting.

我不知道他们是在他的手机、她的手机，还是别的什么地方找到的，但我知道他们确实找到了短信。

I don't know where they find them, his phone, her phone, whatever, but I know that they find texts.

然而，他们并没有以任何与海蒂相关的罪名起诉他，这些短信也从未出现在我们能接触到的任何记录中。

However, they don't actually charge him with anything related to Heidi, and those texts never make it into any record that we have access to.

而且IMP不会共享记录。

And IMP won't share records.

对。

Right.

因此，在2018年8月，丹尼尔因家庭暴力指控受审。

So in August 2018, that is when Daniel goes to trial for his domestic violence charges.

最终，他被裁定13项指控中有8项成立，但所有这些都涉及他当时的妻子，而非海蒂。

Now he gets found guilty on eight of the 13 counts, but that's all involving his then wife, not Heidi.

因此，我知道他和海蒂之间存在可疑短信的唯一原因，是接下来发生的事情。

So the only way I know that there were messages between him and Heidi that seems suspicious is because of what happens next.

2019年2月，他在弗朗西斯科的案件中接受质询，检察官向他追问海蒂的事，当庭朗读了他们的短信，并基本表示她认为他在隐瞒两人关系的实质。

So in February 2019, he gets deposed for Francisco's case, And the prosecutor presses him on Heidi, reading their texts aloud and basically saying that she thinks he's lying about the nature of their relationship.

但他的律师立即介入并制止了这一行为，辩称这可能会使他面临新的指控，且与弗朗西斯科的案件无关。

But his attorney jumps in and shuts it down, arguing that it could expose him to new charges and that that is not relevant to Francisco's case.

好的。

Okay.

如果这些短信会让他面临新的指控

If those texts could open him up to new charges

嗯。

Mhmm.

而且检察官手里有这些短信

And the prosecutor has those texts

嗯。

Mhmm.

我不太想问这个问题，但我们到底在这干什么？

I hate to ask this question, but what are we doing here?

老兄，我不知道。

Dude, I don't know.

我就是不知道，因为我根本不知道里面写了什么。

I like I I don't because I don't know what's in them.

我的意思是，也许

I mean, maybe

他们知道只能证明性侵指控，觉得就凭这些罪名也能判他足够长的刑期，就不必再费劲了。

they knew they could only prove the DB charges and figured he'd get, like, a long enough sentence for those that they wouldn't have to work.

好吧。

Okay.

嗯。

Yeah.

不。

No.

关于那件事。

About that.

根据《印第安纳波利斯星报》记者马克·阿利沙的说法，在丹尼尔量刑时，法官表示她认为他有阴暗的一面，但也指出他的警察背景会使监狱生活对他更加危险。

So according to Indianapolis Star reporter Mark Alisha, at Daniel's sentencing, the judge says that she thinks he has this dark side, but also says that his police background makes prison more dangerous for him.

因此，法官将此视为减轻情节，但仍判处他八年监禁外加四年缓刑。

So the judge considered it an extenuating circumstance, but still sentences him to eight years plus four years probation.

至少还有这一点。

That's something at least.

嗯。

Mhmm.

等一下。

Hang on.

他入狱没多久，他的律师就申请了居家监禁，理由是他在监狱里不安全。

He wasn't in prison long before his lawyer asked for home detention, arguing that he wasn't safe behind bars.

我想辩护方做了一些调查，发现法官有权批准居家监禁，而且丹尼尔基本上有工作。

I guess the defense did some research, found out that the judge had the option to offer home detention, and that Daniel basically, they're like, has a job.

他有房子。

He has a house.

他和新妻子即将迎来孩子。

He has a baby on the way with his new wife.

哦。

Oh.

哦，对了，他有了新妻子。

Oh, by the way, he has a new wife.

他还有年长的孩子依赖他的工资。

He has older kids who depend on his paycheck.

检察官显然提出了反对，但另一位法官批准了。

Prosecutors obviously objected, but a different judge ok'd it.

不到四个月后，丹尼尔被释放，接受电子监控。

And after less than four months, Daniel was released on electronic monitoring.

所以他于2022年完成了刑期。

So he finishes the sentence in 2022.

从那以后，他在学术界重塑了自己的形象，将自己定位为一名致力于帮助受司法影响学生的倡导者，在一所研究刑事法律与社会系统的大学实验室工作，并正在攻读博士学位。

And since then, he has rebuilt his image in academia, branding himself as an advocate for justice impacted students working in a university lab that studies criminal legal and social systems, and he's pursuing a PhD.

直到今天，丹尼尔仍坚称法官判错了。

To this day, Daniel insists that the judge got it wrong.

他否认一切——虐待、短信、威胁，以及与海迪有任何不当关系。

He denies everything, the abuse, the text, the threats, any inappropriate relationship with Heidi.

我的意思是，人们通常不会在不认罪的情况下获得假释，而丹尼尔显然没有认罪。

I mean, people don't usually get paroled without admitting guilt, and and Daniel clearly hasn't.

所以我知道这不算严格意义上的假释，但他是怎么做到在家待了这么久的呢？

So I know it's not quite parole, but, like, why did he get to sit at home through

这一切？

all that?

老兄，我也想知道。

Dude, I wish I knew.

马里昂县检察官办公室告诉我们，这种宽大处理很不寻常，他们也不清楚他为什么能得到这种待遇。

The Marion County prosecutor's office told us that the lenient outcome was unusual, and they don't seem to know why he got it.

那弗朗西斯科呢？

And what happened to Francisco?

哦，就是他。

Oh, so him.

在2022年，弗朗西斯科几乎要认罪，承认一项减轻后的妨碍司法公正轻罪。

So in 2022, Francisco almost pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor obstruction of justice.

他被判处一年缓刑，二百四十小时的社区服务，并被命令每周向法院提交日记。

He gets a year of probation, two hundred forty hours of community service, and is ordered to submit weekly journal entries to the court.

等等。

Hold on.

没有警察因为与警察探索者项目中的未成年人发生关系而受到调查。

There are no police officers in trouble for having a relationship with a minor in the police explorer program.

由于我们无法获得印第安纳波利斯警察局的记录，我不知道他们是否曾调查过这个方向。

Well, since we couldn't get records from IMPD, I don't know if they even explored that angle.

海蒂加入该项目时还是未成年人，嗯。

Heidi was a minor when she entered the program Mhmm.

但她去世时已经18岁了。

But she was 18 when she died.

而我们看到的短信都发生在她18岁的时候。

And the only texts that we've seen are from when she was 18.

那我们该怎么理解这一点呢？

So what are we supposed to take that to mean?

意思是，印第安纳波利斯警察局对警员诱骗未成年人的指控竟然漠不关心。

Like, IMPD is just cool with allegations of officers grooming minors.

只要对方年满18岁，他们就对警员与项目成员之间的权力关系视而不见。

They're cool with the power dynamic of an officer having a relationship with someone in their program as long as they're 18.

我的意思是，在桑德拉·伯奇莫尔案中，至少有过内部调查。

I mean, there were at least internal affairs investigations in the Sandra Burchmore case.

这总算是有点儿什么吧。

Like, that's something.

我的意思是，别忘了，今年印第安纳波利斯警察局确实新增了一项政策。

Well, I mean, remember, IMPD did add a policy this year

对。

Right.

2025年。

2025.

但海蒂的事发生在2015年。

But Heidi happened in 2015.

十年后，他们在今年才添加了一项政策，表示不再对此视而不见。

Ten years later, they added a policy this year saying they weren't cool with it.

哦，很好。

Oh, good.

但让我感到愤怒的是，海蒂去世十多年后，很多事情仍然不清楚。

But what is maddening to me is that more than a decade after Heidi's death, so much is still unclear.

嗯。

Mhmm.

IMPD当时知道什么？什么时候知道的？

What did IMPD know and when?

对。

Right.

很明显，高层中有人注意到了一些情况，至少在弗朗西斯科这件事上是这样，因为珍妮斯告诉我们，早在2015年——也就是海蒂去世前几个月，一位高级官员曾把她拉到一旁，表示他们担心海蒂总是和同一位男警官一起出勤。

It's obvious that someone in leadership saw something, at least with Francisco, because Janice told us that apparently in the 2015, so this is months before Heidi died, a high ranking official pulled her aside and said that they were concerned Heidi was riding with the same male officer a little too often.

他建议她，你知道的，也许该换换不同的警官搭档。

He suggested that she, like, you know, maybe mix it up, ride with some different officers.

嗯。

Mhmm.

现在珍妮丝不记得他是否明确提到了弗朗西斯科，但她知道他说的就是他，因为海迪经常和他一起出勤。

Now Janice doesn't remember if he named Francisco specifically, but she knew that's who he meant since Heidi often did ride alongs with him.

于是她和迈克告诉海迪，换换搭档。

So she and Mike told Heidi, switch it up.

他们以为她照做了。

They assumed she did.

所以他们担心到足以告诉她的妈妈，却没采取任何实际行动。

So they were worried enough to tell her mom, but not to actually do anything themselves.

我们不知道他们做了什么。

We don't know what they did.

对。

Right.

与此同时，尽管丹尼尔告诉我们，他对海迪频繁与弗朗西斯科一起巡逻一无所知。

Meanwhile, despite what Daniel told us, that he was in the dark about Heidi's frequently tagging along with Francisco on patrol.

她去世后，他告诉她母亲，大家都清楚他们一起出警的次数太多了。

After she died, he told her mom that everyone knew that they were going on too many ride alongs.

迈克和珍妮丝仍觉得没有听到完整的故事，得知两个本应保护海蒂的男人辜负了她，他们感到被背叛了。

Mike and Janice still don't feel like they got the full story, and they feel betrayed knowing that two men who were supposed to protect Heidi failed her.

而那些人却几乎没受到任何惩罚就脱身了。

And those guys walked away with barely any consequences.

现在，我们的团队花了将近一年的时间试图查明更多真相。

Now our team has spent the better part of a year trying to find out more.

我们向印第安纳波利斯警察局提交了多次申请，只收到了一些记录和模糊的保证，说他们正在努力为我们获取更多信息。

We filed multiple requests with IMPD, and we got back a few records and, like, vague assurances that they're working on getting us more.

与此同时，他们声称某些内容因调查豁免而被 withheld，但并未说明具体是哪些内容以及原因，毕竟两个刑事案件都已经结案了。

And at the same time, they claim that they're withholding some under an investigatory exemption, but they haven't said what or why considering both criminal cases are closed.

对。

Right.

他们还拒绝了我们的采访，说答案——你猜怎么着——都在记录里。

And they also declined an interview saying that the answers are, wait for it, in the records.

他们不给我们的那些记录。

The records that they won't give us.

就是那些记录。

Them the ones.

好吧。

Okay.

所以我们就这样陷入了一个小循环。

So we're just like in this little circle.

是的。

Yeah.

我们没能联系上弗朗西斯科，他和丹尼尔都从未公开承认过与海蒂有任何超越友谊的关系。

Now we couldn't reach Francisco, and neither he nor Daniel has ever publicly admitted to anything beyond a friendship with Heidi.

但我们接触过的人——家人、朋友、圈内人士——普遍认为，两人都越界了，把海蒂夹在中间，逼她在这两人之间做选择。

But the general feeling from people we spoke to, family, friends, people in the mix, is that both crossed a line and they put Heidi in the middle, pressuring her to choose between them.

这种有毒的三角关系也不只是我们的推测。

And that toxic triangle dynamic isn't just our interpretation either.

我们采访了约翰·摩尔，他曾是印第安纳波利斯警察局特别调查组的警长。

We spoke to John Moore, who is a former sergeant with the special investigations unit at IMPD.

他负责调查丹尼尔的案件。

He worked the case against Daniel.

他告诉我们，调查人员的总体看法是，海迪与这两位男性存在不适当的关系，而他们两人利用身为警官的职权和接触机会，逐步培养她的信任，模糊了界限。

He told us that investigators' broader takeaway was that Heidi was in an inappropriate relationship involving both men and that they both groomed her using their authority and access as officers to build her trust and blur the boundaries.

法庭文件中有一些细节，但不足以显示调查人员对这两人究竟有多深入的调查。

Court files have some details, but not enough to show how closely investigators looked at either of them.

我们不知道他们对丹尼尔与海迪关系的调查有多认真，也不清楚他们对弗朗西斯科的调查除了妨碍案件之外深入了多少。

We don't know how seriously they checked out Daniel's relationship with Heidi or how deeply they dug into Francisco beyond the obstruction case.

由于拖延、拒绝和不予置评，印第安纳波利斯警察局几乎让我们无法了解究竟发生了什么。

Between the delays and the denials and the no comments, IMPD has made it nearly impossible to understand what really happened.

我们得到的不是答案，而是敷衍和回避。

And instead of answers, we got stonewalled.

我们甚至不知道印第安纳波利斯警察局是如何监督探险者小组的。

We don't even know how IMPD supervised the Explorer post.

但如果丹尼尔的说法属实，他基本上是独自运作的。

But if Daniel's account is accurate, he ran it mostly on his own.

花名册上大约有30名青少年，其中约10人是常驻成员，而他是唯一直接参与的持证警官。

There were about 30 teens on the roster, maybe 10 regulars, and he was the only sworn officer directly involved.

有一位警长提供轻微监督，还有几位成年志愿者帮忙，其中包括前探险队员。

There was a sergeant who offered light oversight and a few adult volunteers that helped out, including former explorers.

当丹尼尔接手时，他是一名没有任何青少年工作经验的巡逻警官。

And when Daniel took over, he was a patrol officer with zero youth experience.

他基本上说，他被直接扔下这个项目，没有任何手册，只有‘学习与成长’的宣传资料和印第安纳波利斯警局的通用规章，他把这些零散材料拼凑成了一本规章制度。

He basically says that he was handed the post with a here you go and no manual, just learning for life handouts and IMPD's general orders, which he kinda cobbled together into a rule book.

顺便提一下，‘学习与成长’是美国大多数探险项目所依托的组织。

And by the way, just as a reminder, Learning For Life is the organization that most explore programs in the country run through.

嗯。

Mhmm.

正如我提到的，‘学习与成长’是童子军美国组织的附属机构。

And as I mentioned, Learning For Life is an affiliate of scouting America.

嗯。

Yeah.

也就是童子军。

AKA the Boy Scouts.

嗯。

Mhmm.

我不

I don't

你有没有听说过他们那里有过什么虐待问题。

if you've ever heard of any abuse problems with them.

对。

Right.

但简要说一下。

But quick download.

2020年，童子军因遭到超过——等等——82,000起性侵指控而申请破产，这是美国历史上最大的虐待丑闻之一。

In 2020, the Boy Scouts filed for bankruptcy after being hit with over, wait for it, 82,000 sexual abuse claims, one of the largest abuse scandals in US history.

该组织几十年来一直知晓这些虐待行为，保留着通常被称为‘变态档案’的内部记录，但却经常未能向当局报告施虐者。

The organization had known about the abuse for decades, keeping internal records commonly known as the perversion files, but often failing to report abusers to authorities.

所以，所有这些都说明，我敢打赌，你会惊讶地发现，直到2015年，‘终身学习’项目对成年人在会议之外与青少年沟通仍没有任何指导方针。

So all that to say, I bet you would be surprised to know that in 2015, learning for life still had no guidance on adult communication with teens outside of meetings.

没有关于短信的政策。

No policy on texting.

就在同一年，童子军采用了他们所谓的‘过度亲密领导’数字版本，意思是成年人与未成年人之间不得进行一对一接触，

Now that same year, the Boy Scouts adopted a digital version of what they call too deep leadership, meaning that no one on one contact between, like, adults and minors

嗯。

Mhmm.

包括通过短信、私信或游戏互动。

Including through texting DMs or gaming.

但‘终身学习’项目有自己的手册，那一年并未纳入这一数字接触规定。

But Learning for Life has its own handbook, and the digital contact rule wasn't included that year.

我们直到2017年才在手册中找到这项规定。

And we couldn't find it in there until 2017.

所以，在我看来，这不仅仅是印第安纳波利斯的问题。

So to me, this isn't just an Indianapolis problem.

这些项目似乎在设计上就容易成为诱骗的温床。

These programs seem to be built in a way that makes them prime for grooming.

我们在这里看到的失败，正在全国各个机构中发生。

And the failures we're seeing here are happening in agencies all over the country.

而且没有一个全国性的公开数据库来记录探险者项目的不当行为。

And there's no national public database for explorer misconduct.

我的意思是，我们都知道性虐待总体上严重漏报，但确实有记者和研究者试图弄清这个问题的普遍程度。

I mean, we know sexual abuse in general is notoriously underreported, but there have been reporters and researchers who tried to pin down how widespread this problem is.

最近，马歇尔计划的拉基德拉·查维斯进行的一项调查发现，自上世纪七十年代女孩首次被允许加入以来，执法探险项目中至少出现了217起虐待和不当行为指控，涉及100多个机构，其中官员对年龄低至13或14岁的受害者进行诱骗或性侵。

A recent investigation by Lakidra Chavis of the Marshall Project identified at least 217 abuse and misconduct allegations in law enforcement explorer programs going back to the nineteen seventies when girls were first allowed in, spanning more than a 100 agencies with officers grooming or sexually abusing victims as young as 13 or 14.

犯罪学家塞缪尔·沃克和道恩·埃爾貝克2003年的一项研究发现，近一半报告的警员与青少年发生性行为的案件都发生在探险队中。

A 2003 study by criminologists Samuel Walker and Dawn Ehrlbeck found that nearly half of all reported cases of officer sexual conduct with teenagers happened in explorer posts.

因此，尽管这些项目只是警察与青少年互动的一种方式，却占了已知虐待案件的不成比例的高比例。

So even though these programs are just one way that cops interact with teens, they account for a disproportionate share of the known abuse.

虽然女孩更容易成为目标，但男孩和年轻男性也遭受过侵害。

And while girls are more often targeted, boys and young men have been victimized too.

现在，项目的支持者指出，这些案例是罕见的，仅占自1959年加利福尼亚州警长部门设立首个分队以来参与的数万名青少年中的一小部分。

Now supporters of the programs point out that these cases are rare, a small fraction of the tens of thousands of teens who have participated since 1959 when a California sheriff's department started the very first post.

听好了。

And listen.

当然，如果运作得当，探索者项目确实能带来实际价值。

For sure, when operated properly, explorer programs can offer real value.

嗯。

Mhmm.

参与者通常在14到20岁之间，能够提前接触警务工作，同时培养领导力、纪律性、自信心和归属感。

Participants usually 14 to 20 get early exposure to police work while building leadership, discipline, confidence, a sense of belonging.

执法机构则获得了人才招募渠道，以及与社区建立联系的方式。

Agencies get a recruitment pipeline, a way to connect with the community.

这本应是双赢的局面。

It should be a win win.

很好。

Great.

那么，我们如何在不让孩子陷入风险的情况下获得这些好处呢？

So how do we get the good without putting children at risk?

答案是监督。

The answer is oversight.

对于‘学习一生’项目下的站点，该组织本应制定并执行一套包含五项安全措施的保护规范。

For post under learning for life, the organization is supposed to set and enforce protection rules with a five point safety plan.

筛选出施虐者，向青少年、家长和志愿者普及预警信号，设定界限，鼓励举报，清除加害者。

Screen out abusers, educate youth, parents, and volunteers about warning signs, set boundaries, encourage reporting, remove offenders.

但实际上，每一项安全措施都取决于地方层面的执行情况。

In practice, every safeguard lives or dies at the local level.

正如自由记者乔纳森·卡明斯基所发现的，历史上，‘学习一生’组织大多让各机构自行监管。

And as then a freelance journalist Jonathan Kaminski found, historically, learning for life has mostly left agencies to police themselves.

而在这种不稳固的体系中，存在一个明显的漏洞——搭车体验，这是该项目最受欢迎也最危险的环节。

And inside that shaky setup is a glaring vulnerability, ride alongs, the program's most popular feature and its riskiest.

加州律师安东尼·德马尔科多年来一直处理探险者虐待案件，他告诉我们，随车体验活动为剥削提供了完美的条件。

California based attorney Anthony DeMarco, who has spent years litigating explorer abuse cases, told us that ride alongs are a perfect setup for exploitation.

嗯。

Mhmm.

与一位有权势的成年人独处数小时，无人能看见或听见正在发生的事，且部门几乎没有任何实际监管。

Hours alone with a powerful adult with no one else able to see or hear what's happening and almost no real oversight from the department.

但那条‘双人领导’规则不适用吗？

But doesn't that two deep leadership rule apply?

除了随车体验活动之外，其他地方都适用。

Everywhere except ride alongs.

至少在今年六月之前，学习成就生命组织才开始要求，如果探险者年满18岁，车内必须有两名成年人。

At least they were the exception until just this past June when Learning for Life finally started requiring two adults in the car if the Explorer is 18.

在此之前，这个漏洞一直敞开无阻。

Before that, the loophole was wide open.

《马歇尔计划》得出结论，随车体验活动涉及了约四分之一的虐待案件。

And the Marshall Project concluded that ride alongs factored into about a quarter of abuse cases.

但搭车体验只是其中一部分。

But ride alongs are only part of it.

这些项目之所以是完美风暴，是因为它们将所有这些风险因素叠加在一起。

These programs are a perfect storm because they stack all these risk factors together.

嗯。

Mhmm.

警察能够接触到青少年。

Officers get access to teens.

监督通常很薄弱，而孩子们又渴望参与。

Oversight is often thin, and the kids want to be there.

他们很有抱负。

They're ambitious.

他们想给人留下好印象。

They want to impress.

许多人将此视为自己的未来，而这种结构使得正常培训与可疑行为之间的界限变得模糊。

A lot of them see this as their future, and the structure can make it hard to tell where normal training ends and something sketchy begins.

所以当一名警官特别关注他们时

So when an officer singles them out with extra attention

他们会觉得自己很重要。

They can feel important.

这被视为他们的重要机遇，而不是一个危险信号。

It's their big break instead of feeling like a red flag.

在这里，操纵通常始于连接，而不是威胁。

That's how grooming usually starts here, not with threats, but with connection.

一名警官成为他们的知己，建立信任，甚至可能与家人亲近。

An officer becomes a confidant, builds trust, maybe gets close to the family.

当青少年已经年满法定成年年龄，比如海蒂时，这一点同样成立。

And that's just as true when the teen is legally an adult like Heidi.

一个生日并不能消除权力的不平等。

A birthday does not erase the power imbalance.

从那里，事情可能会升级。

And from there, things can escalate.

对吧？

Right?

这可能是一次顺路回家、私下聚会、深夜消息。

It's a ride home, a private hangout, late night messages.

当事情明显变得性侵或胁迫时，团队成员可能反而觉得是自己默许了，或者认为揭发会毁掉一切——他们的声誉、工作机会和未来。

By the time that it's clearly sexual or coercive, the team might actually feel like they went along with it or that speaking up would ruin everything, their reputation, their shot at the job, their future.

安东尼说，通常存在一种心照不宣的协议。

Anthony says that there is often this unspoken deal.

保持沉默，门就一直开着。

Stay quiet, and the doors stay open.

一旦揭发，门就会砰地关上。

Speak up, and it slams shut.

顺便说一句，受害者也可能感到害怕。

And victims might also be afraid, by the way.

他们是警察。

They're cops.

这些是警察。

These are cops.

是的。

Yes.

他们携带武器。

They carry weapons.

他们可以逮捕你。

They can arrest you.

许多受害者担心自己会被针对，或者没人会相信他们。

A lot of victims worry that they'll be targeted or that no one is gonna believe them.

他们中的很多人从未说出口。

So many of them never even tell.

有些人多年后才站出来。

Some of them come forward years later.

即使他们真的站出来了，也无法保证能获得正义。

And even when they do, there's no guarantee that they're gonna get justice.

嗯。

Mhmm.

这不仅仅是一个统计数据。

And this isn't just a stat.

所以，如果你们还记得的话，我们在关于佩吉·赫特里斯的那一集中提到过探险者计划。

So I did a bit of a call out about the explorer program, if you remember, in our episode on Peggy Hetris.

不久之前，我发了一条TikTok，邀请参与过该计划的人跟我分享他们的故事。

And not too long ago, I posted a TikTok asking people to share their stories with me if they were in the program.

我没有说明是什么类型的故事，只是开放性地邀请。

Didn't say what kind of stories, just left it open.

我收到的来自人们的私信数量多得惊人。

And the number of messages I got from people was wild.

其中很多人讲述了他们过去的经历，要么是朋友与警察有亲密关系，要么是自己被诱骗了。

So many of them had stories from their past where either they had friends that were in intimate relationships with officers or they themselves were groomed.

但即便到现在，仍有大量人不愿站出来。

And tons of them still didn't wanna come forward even now.

嗯。

Mhmm.

所以这个问题比我们想象的要严重得多。

So the problem is so much bigger than we think it is.

但有些人决定分享他们的故事，希望能让更多年轻人免受虐待。

But there were some people who decided to share their story in hopes that it could save even one more young person from abuse.

其中一个人是一位43岁的女性，我称她为凯特。

And one of those people was a 43 year old woman who I'll call Kate.

1998年，当时15岁的凯特加入了新罕布什尔州的博斯科温警察探索者计划。

In 1998, then 15 year old Kate joined the Boscowin Police Explorer Program in New Hampshire.

她从小崇拜一名DARE警官，一直希望成为一名警察。

She'd grown up admiring a DARE officer and knew that she wanted to be a cop.

而这个项目看起来像是完美的第一步。

And the post seemed like a perfect first step.

一群青少年在一位二十多岁的约翰·拉罗什警官带领下。

A small group of teens led by officer John Larosh, who was in his late twenties.

约翰的妈妈曾经是凯特的老师，所以他一开始就觉得安全。

And John's mom had been a teacher of Kate, so he, like, already felt safe.

他知道她多么渴望这份事业，也知道她很脆弱。

And he knew how badly she wanted this career, and he knew that she was vulnerable.

在青春期前期，她曾对自己的性取向感到困惑。

As a preteen, she'd questioned her sexuality.

她的父母最终接受了，但有一段时间，他们限制了她的活动。

Her parents eventually came around, but for a while, they restricted what she could do.

她感到非常孤立。

She felt really cut off.

约翰表现得像是唯一一个无条件接纳她的成年人。

And John acted like the one adult who accepted her no matter what.

作为探险项目的指导者，他掌控着一切。

As the explorer adviser, he controlled everything.

该项目包括定期跟车巡逻，有时是通宵值班，而凯特经常和他搭档。

The program included regular ride alongs, sometimes overnight shifts, and Kate was often paired with him.

她的父母对此也表示同意。

And her parents were fine with it.

他们信任他，并支持她的目标。

They trusted him and supported her goals.

但没过多久，他就开始逐渐越界。

But it didn't take long for him to start just, like, pushing boundaries.

几个月内，她说他总是把话题引向性，讲低俗笑话，询问她的经历，并过度分享自己的私事，包括他出轨妻子的事。

Within months, she said that he was steering conversations toward sex, making crude jokes, asking her about her experiences, and oversharing his own, including that he cheated on his wife.

起初，凯特并不觉得这有什么不对。

Now at first, Kate didn't see it as wrong.

她觉得他是在把她当作平等的人对待。

It felt like he was treating her like an equal.

她甚至觉得自己很特别。

She actually felt special.

嗯。

Mhmm.

但到了2000年初，凯特说他侵犯了她。

But sometime around early two thousand, Kate says that he assaulted her.

事件发生在县监狱附近一个黑暗偏僻的停车场，那是他巡逻时经常检查的一个船艇下水处。

It happened in this dark secluded lot near the county jail, this, like, boat launch that he routinely checked while on patrol.

她告诉我们，有一晚，他开车到那里，评论说有人在那里发生性关系，然后让她下车为他口交。

And she tells us that one night, he drove there, made a comment about people having sex there, and then told her to get out of the car and perform oral sex on him.

她说她觉得自己别无选择。

And she said she didn't feel like she had a choice.

她是一个独自与一名持枪警官在一起的少女，害怕他的反应，也害怕毁掉自己的未来，于是她顺从了。

She was a teenage girl alone with an armed officer, afraid of his reaction, afraid of ruining her future, so she complied.

凯特告诉我们，之后的几个月里还发生了更多次侵犯，而这一切都发生在他执勤期间。

Kate told us that there were more assaults in the months that followed, all while he was on duty.

有一次，她说约翰甚至给她看了一篇关于另一名警察因侵犯一名探险者而被捕的新闻报道。

At one point, she says that John even showed her a news article about another cop getting arrested for assaulting an explorer.

然后他拿出新罕布什尔州的刑法典，向她朗读了具体条款，那正是描述他所作所为的重罪性侵条款。

He then pulled out the New Hampshire criminal code and read her the exact statute, the one that described what he was doing as felonious sexual assault.

凯特不想激怒他，所以她试图安抚他。

Like, Kate didn't wanna anger him, so she, like, tried to reassure him.

她当时已经16岁了，新罕布什尔州的同意年龄是16岁，但他纠正了她。

Like, she was over 16, the age of consent in New Hampshire, but he corrected her.

如果成年人处于权威地位，法律规定的同意年龄实际上是18岁。

If the adult is in a position of authority, the law is actually 18.

所以他完全知道自己在做什么。

So he absolutely knew what he was doing.

他确保凯特也清楚这一点。

And he made sure Kate knew too.

从那以后，她变了。

And after that, she changed.

她变成了一个与朋友们认识的那个活泼开朗的孩子截然不同的影子。

She became this shadow of the fun loving kid that her friends knew.

她曾试图向另一位探险队员倾诉发生的事，但得到的不是支持，而是羞辱。

She tried to tell another explorer what was happening, but instead of support, she got shamed.

所以她又在那个岗位上待了几年。

So she stayed in the post for a couple more years.

这确实为她打开了门路，比如她提前高中毕业了。

It did open doors for her, like she graduated high school early.

她进入了刑事司法项目，甚至还获得了一家其他警察部门的文职工作。

She got into a criminal justice program, even landed a civilian job with another police department.

但创伤一直伴随着她。

But the trauma followed her.

她坚信是自己引诱了他，觉得自己不配拥有幸福。

She was convinced that she led him on, that she didn't deserve happiness.

最终，她放弃了成为警察的梦想。

And eventually, she gave up her dream of becoming a cop.

多年过去了，凯特结婚了。

Now years passed, Kate got married.

2013年，她生了一个女儿。

And in 2013, she had a daughter.

成为父母这件事，让她终于以不同的视角看待一切。

And there was something about becoming a parent that made her finally see things differently.

她知道，如果有人对她的孩子做出这样的事，她希望有人能为此负责。

And she knew that she'd want someone to be held accountable if they did this to her child.

因此，在2014年9月，经过一番深思熟虑后，她最终举报了约翰。

So in September 2014, after a lot of soul searching, she actually reported John.

那时，他已经离开博斯科安很久了。

He was long gone from Boscoian by then.

到那时，他已经是附近坎特伯雷的警察局长。

He was chief of police in nearby Canterbury by that time.

但由于他和博斯科安的警长曾共事过，这个案件被移交给了新罕布什尔州总检察长办公室。

But since he and the Boscoian chief had worked together, the case was handed over to the New Hampshire attorney general's office.

调查人员要求凯特佩戴录音设备去当面质问他。

Investigators asked Kate to wear a wire and confront him.

听着，她已经很久没见到他了，这个计划让她感到无比压力，但她还是同意了。

And listen, she didn't see him in ages, and the prospect of this was, like, overwhelming, but she agreed.

她前往坎特伯雷警局与他见面。

And she goes to meet him at the Canterbury station.

录音中，他承认了性行为，甚至道歉了，尽管他坚称那是双方自愿的。

And on tape, they have this guy admitting to the sexual activity, even apologizing, though he was, like, insisting it was consensual.

后来，当调查人员再次质问他时，他重复了这一供述。

And later, when investigators confronted him again, he repeated the confession.

根据WMUR的希瑟·哈米尔的说法，他甚至说，他认为在自己控制下与16岁少女调情是‘很有趣’的事。

And according to WMUR's Heather Hamill, he even said that he thought it was, quote, fun to flirt with a 16 year old under his control.

什么？

What?

2015年8月，约翰因严重重罪性侵罪被捕，并被停职停薪。

In August 2015, John was arrested for aggravated felonious sexual assault and placed on unpaid leave.

新闻报道显示，几个月后，他被指控多项重罪和轻罪性侵罪名。

And news coverage shows that he was indicted on a slew of felony and misdemeanor sexual assault charges a couple of months later.

随后，他在次年一月辞职。

Then he resigned the following January.

到2016年，此案进入审判阶段。

By 2016, the case went to trial.

他实际上出庭作证，再次承认与凯特发生了性关系，但仍声称这些行为是双方自愿的。

He actually took the stand where, again, he admits to the sexual encounters with Kate, but is still claiming they were consensual.

当法律明文规定这并非自愿时，他怎么能说是自愿的呢？

How can he call it consensual when the law literally says it wasn't?

而且他还指出

And also, he pointed out that

法律。

law.

检察官正是这么主张的，认为整个事件本质上是诱骗和胁迫。

Literally, that's what prosecutors argued, that, like, the whole thing was grooming and coercion.

他们请来了一位创伤专家，质问他前后矛盾的陈述。

They brought in an expert on trauma and pressed him on his changing stories.

但约翰的辩护团队将他描绘成一个笨拙无害的人，并暗示凯特有经济动机来指控他。

But John's defense painted him as, like, this, like, fumbling and harmless guy and suggested that Kate had financial motive to go after him.

两位前探险者作证说，她曾吹嘘过这段关系。

Two former explorers testified that she had, quote, bragged about the relationship.

因此，在七天的证词之后，陪审团仅用两个小时就审议完毕，并裁定他所有指控均不成立。

And so after seven days of testimony, the jury deliberated for just two hours, and they found him not guilty on all charges.

我知道。

I know.

在哪个世界里，他不是处于权威地位的人？

In what world was he not in a position of authority?

一种感觉。

A feeling.

这太不真实了。

I this is unreal.

根据凯特的说法，检察官后来询问陪审员是什么影响了他们的决定。

According to Kate, prosecutors later asked jurors what shaped their decision.

你知道，他们说他们根本无法想象约翰会是个暴力的人，而且他们质疑她为什么还要留在这个项目中。

And, you know, they said they just couldn't picture John being a violent guy, and they questioned why she would stay in the program.

有些人觉得她哭得太多了。

Some people thought she cried too much.

有些人觉得她哭得不够，或者显得太坚强了。

Some people thought she didn't cry enough or that she seemed just too strong.

所以无论她做什么或打算做什么，都没关系。

So it it didn't matter what she did or was going to do.

那是错误的反应。

It was the wrong reaction.

她永远不会成为他们心目中的完美受害者。

She was never gonna make herself the perfect victim for them.

这就像我们经常看到的情况。

Which is like what we see all the time.

对吧？

Right?

幸存者总是被要求达到不可能的标准。

Like, survivors are held to impossible standards.

他们被期望符合一个狭隘的剧本，比如要冷静但不能太冷静。

They're expected to fit this narrow script, like be composed but not too composed.

即使创伤会扭曲记忆，也要记住每一个细节。

Remember every detail even though trauma distorts memory.

嗯。

Mhmm.

如果他们不符合人们对‘真正受害者’的刻板印象，就不会有人相信他们。

And if they don't match what people think a real victim, quote unquote, looks like, they're not believed.

凯特心碎了。

Kate was crushed.

州总检察长办公室鼓励她提起民事诉讼。

The attorney general's office encouraged her to file a civil suit.

有些幸存者即使刑事指控不成立，也会选择这么做。

Like, some survivors pursue that even when criminal charges don't stick.

但她实在无法忍受再上一次法庭。

But she just couldn't stomach another courtroom.

当时公众的负面反应已经非常强烈，她担心提起诉讼会让人们觉得她的故事不真实。

Like, the public backlash was already intense, and she worried that suing would make people dismiss her story.

人们会觉得她只是为了钱，所以她决定不告了。

Like, think it was just about money, so she decided against it.

好消息是，约翰·拉罗什不再当警察了。

The upside is that John Larosh is no longer a cop.

在他被停职后，当地居民对坎特伯雷警察局提出了更广泛的问题。

And after he was suspended, locals raised broader concerns about Canterbury PD.

因此，治安官办公室对整个部门进行了审查，结果发现他在任期间长达十多年存在管理不善和运作混乱的问题。

So the sheriff's office reviewed the department, and they actually found over a decade of mismanagement and dysfunction under his leadership.

现在我们通过短信联系了约翰。

Now we reached out to John via text.

他告诉我们，既然他已被判无罪，就没什么好讨论的。

He told us that there was nothing to discuss since he was found not guilty.

当我们指出他仍承认与一名未成年探险者发生性接触，并问他是否有什么话想说，距离事件已近十年，他回答说他在审判中已经解释过了，并让我们删掉他的号码。

And when we noted that he still admitted to sexual contact with a minor explorer and asked if he had anything to say now, nearly a decade later, he said that he'd already answered for it at trial and told us to lose his number.

如今博斯科警局的没有人曾在约翰任职期间或探险者项目时期工作过。

No one at Bosco and PD today was around during John's time or the Explorer era.

但警长告诉我们，该计划早在约翰被捕前就已关闭，且从未收到过其他投诉。

But the chief told us that the program was shut down long before John's arrest and that no other complaints were ever reported.

即使到现在，凯特在情感和法律上依然觉得发声有风险。

Speaking out even now still feels risky to Kate emotionally and legally.

比如，我们使用了化名，但这无法隐藏她的真实身份，约翰和社区里的人依然认得出来。

Like, we're using a pseudonym, but that's not gonna hide her identity from him or the community.

但她认为这是值得的。

But she decided it was worth it.

沉默并没有保护她。

Silence hadn't protected her.

它只保护了他，而她希望人们知道发生了什么。

It only protected him, and she wants people to know what happened.

她希望自己的故事能帮助其他人获得正义，即使她自己没有得到。

And she hopes that her story helps someone else get justice even though she didn't.

凯特并不是唯一抱有这种希望或经历这种结果的人。

And Kate's not alone in that hope or even that outcome.

对许多幸存者来说，正义始终遥不可及。

For many survivors, justice stays just out of reach.

《马歇尔计划》发现，在他们追踪的与探险队相关的案件中，只有一半左右导致了监禁。

The Marshall Project found that only about half of the Explore related cases that they tracked led to any time behind bars.

而一个主要原因是认罪协商。

And a big reason is because of plea deals.

指控往往被降级为轻罪或非性犯罪。

Charges just get, like, reduced to misdemeanors or to nonsex offenses.

除了探险队事件外，《华盛顿邮报》的一项调查发现，2005年至2022年间被定罪的涉及儿童性犯罪的警官中，近40%从未入狱服刑。

Beyond Explorer Post, a Washington Post investigation found that nearly forty percent of officers convicted of sex crimes involving children from 2,005 to twenty twenty two never served a day in prison.

即使有惩罚，也没有统一的标准来界定惩罚的性质。

And when there is punishment, there is no real standard of what that is.

这些指控涉及州法和联邦法的混合，包括法定强奸、滥用职权、侵犯公民权利等。

Charges fall under this, like, mix of state and federal laws, statutory rape, abuse of power, civil rights violations.

检察官即使面对类似的行为，也不总是使用相同的策略，因此量刑差异巨大。

Prosecutors don't always use the same playbook even when the behavior looks similar, and so sentencing is all over the place.

没错。

Right.

在机构内部，纪律处分也同样不一致。

Inside agencies, discipline is just as inconsistent.

有些警察被解雇了。

Some officers are fired.

有些则辞职了。

Some resign.

其他人则只是受到训斥、短期停职，有时甚至没有任何处罚，仍留在岗位上。

Others stay on the job with reprimand or short suspension or sometimes nothing at all.

珍妮弗的案件就是这种情况。

And that's what happened in Jennifer's case.

在八十年代末，珍妮弗在学校听说了康特拉科斯塔县警长探险者项目后，加入了该计划。

In the late eighties, Jennifer joined the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Explorer program in California after hearing about it at school.

她当时15岁，已经决心从事执法工作。

She was 15 and already set on a career in law enforcement.

这个项目规模较小，只有不到十名青少年，完全由一名叫比尔的副警长负责。

And this post was smaller, like fewer than 10 teens and run entirely by one deputy who we're gonna call Bill.

比尔三十多岁，开始每周邀请詹妮弗进行几次过夜随车巡逻。

Bill, who was in his mid to late thirties, started inviting Jennifer on overnight ride alongs a couple of times a week.

她的父母对此表示同意。

Her parents are fine with it.

她和一名警察在一起。

She was with a cop.

还有什么比这更安全的呢？

Like, what could be safer?

在接下来的几年里，他逐渐让她接触一些不适当的行为，比如告诉她她长大后会多么漂亮。

And over the next couple of years, he slowly introduced her to inappropriate behavior, things like telling her how beautiful that she was gonna be when she grew up.

她信任他，相信他的话，并重视他的意见。

She trusted him, believed what he said, and valued his opinion.

她崇拜这个男人。

She idolized this man.

所以当一个晚上他在巡逻车里转过身亲吻她时，她震惊了，但同时也感到受宠若惊。

So when one night he turned around in the patrol car and kissed her, she was stunned, but also flattered.

一个月后，趁他妻子不在家时，他带她去自己家，强迫她发生性关系。

A month later, he took her to his house while his wife was away and pressured her to have sex.

她拒绝了，他就停下了。

She said no, and he stopped.

不久之后，她的家人搬到了佛罗里达。

Now soon after, her family moved to Florida.

在离开之前，她向另一位探员倾诉了这件事。

And before leaving, she confided in another explorer.

并不是像凯特那样寻求帮助，而更像是她在哀悼一段她以为真实的关系的终结。

Not as like a cry for help like Kate, more like she was mourning the end of something that she thought was real.

嗯。

Mhmm.

在她心里，他们之间的关系是一种恋爱关系。

Like in her mind, what they had had been a relationship.

那位探险者向警长办公室报告了此事。

That explorer told the sheriff's office.

值得称赞的是，他们启动了调查。

And to their credit, they opened an investigation.

但那时，詹妮弗已经搬到了全国各地。

But by then, Jennifer was across the country.

所以所有事情都是通过电话和她沟通的，而且只和她一个人。

So everything was happening over the phone with her, but only with her.

你什么意思，只和她？

What do you mean only her?

他们没和她父母谈过吗？

They didn't talk to her parents?

嗯。

Mm-mm.

他们根本不知道那个埃文

They had no idea that that Even

尽管她还是未成年人。

though she was still a minor.

嗯。

Yeah.

太疯狂了。

It's wild.

而且，当时因为詹妮弗非常尴尬，她轻描淡写地处理了这件事。

And, like, in that moment, since Jennifer was, like, so embarrassed, she minimized it.

但她至少确认了他们接吻了，而且这段关系是不恰当的。

But she did at least confirm that they kissed and that the relationship was inappropriate.

sheriff办公室没有回应我们的采访请求。

The sheriff's office didn't respond to our interview request.

但据我们所知，调查最终毫无进展。

But as far as we know, the investigation went nowhere.

比尔没有丢掉他的警徽。

Bill didn't lose his badge.

记录显示，他于1991年辞去了探险队顾问的职务，但仍在岗位上工作了近二十年。

Records show that he did step down as explorer adviser in 1991, but he stayed on the job for nearly two more decades.

詹妮弗加入了佛罗里达州另一个规模更大、更规范的探险队，但同样的问题依然存在。

Jennifer joined another explorer post in Florida, this one larger and more structured, but the same problems persisted.

她记得那些评论，比如来自各个年龄段男性警察的持续关注。

She remembers the comments like the lingering attention from male cops of all ages.

当时她还年轻，感觉不到那是掠夺性的。

At the time when she's young, it didn't feel predatory.

那感觉像是被注意到了。

It felt like being noticed.

她通过了警校培训，做过接线员，后来成为了一名后备警官。

She went through the academy, worked as a dispatcher, and became a reserve officer.

但持续的越界行为让她身心俱疲，最终她意识到，这些人并不是英雄。

But the steady boundary pushing wore her down, and eventually, she realized these are not superheroes.

他们只是穿着制服的普通人，有的好，有的不好。

They are just human men in uniforms, some good, some not.

所以当她怀孕时，她离开了一线岗位。

So when she got pregnant, she left the field.

去年，当她翻看一本旧相册时，珍妮弗决定她其实想当面质问比尔。

Last year, while flipping through an old photo album, Jennifer decided that she actually wanted to confront Bill.

那时她才知道他已经去世了。

That's when she found out that he died.

因此，她无法得到清算，也没有机会直视他的眼睛，告诉他他对自己做了什么。

So there would be no reckoning, no chance to look him in the eye and tell him what he'd done to her.

多年来，她一直背负着羞耻感，责怪自己。

And she carried shame for years, blaming herself.

直到后来，她才明白青少年是多么脆弱，而像比尔这样的人是如何利用这一点的。

And only later did she understand how vulnerable teens are and how men like Bill take advantage of that.

海蒂、凯特、珍妮弗，还有许多其他人，她们都按照大人们的要求做了。

Heidi, Kate, Jennifer, and so many others, they did what adults told them to do.