Category:Sexual predators in LE

People in law enforcement who are sexual predators, which is defined as: those who attempt or obtain sexual contact (molestation, intercourse, etc.) with a person without consent, which necessarily includes underage victims due to their inherent inability to consent

In order for a person's wiki page to be added to this category, their status as a sexual predator must be confirmed through a legitimate criminal conviction or sufficient outside corroboration. Even likely but unconfirmed people, however, can be added to the list below along with the confirmed people:

A good resource for filling out this category is: Police Prostitution and Politics.com archive of pedophilia charges against LE from 1986 through 2011

Nationwide

• J. Edgar Hoover - former FBI director connected to multiple pedophile rings including one operated by Roy Cohn in New York City and another operated by the partnership of Guy Strait and Billy Byars Jr. in Laurel Canyon
• Dick Thornburgh - attorney general under George H.W. Bush to whom Craig J. Spence is said to have supplied adolescent boys

California

• Joseph James DeAngelo - the accused suspect in the Golden State Killer rapes and murders (though, in all likelihood, DeAngelo was probably just one member in a larger group of murderers, and may have been a hired hitman against Lyman Smith)
• M. Scott Connelly a.k.a. Marshal Scott Connelly - Yosemite National Park ranger and local prosecutor in charge of prosecuting federal crimes within the park; oversaw the investigation into Curry Company drug trafficking, which park rangers accused him of sabotaging; had a known "predilection for underage boys" which was exposed in 1998 when he was charged with sexually abusing multiple children

Colorado

• Ben Meyers - police chief of Grand Junction CO during a string of homicides of young women who were involved in drugs, sex, and parties with local officers including Meyers himself, who resigned after threatening an officer who saw him buying a 19-year-old girl a drink at a bar
• Pat Sullivan - Arapahoe County Sheriff who went down in a meth-for-sex scandal, knowingly infected people with HIV, was accused by multiple victims of raping them while they were underage, and oversaw a large human trafficking ring in the state of Colorado
• Michael Mangino - officer of the Aurora Police Department who photographed an underage girl naked, and was protected by the department for a long time (perhaps due to a similar culture of sexual deviancy within the PD as Mangino claimed)

Florida

• Allen "Frog" Johnson? - sheriff's investigator, alleged child trafficker, and nightclub owner in Bay County FL

Georgia

• Charlie Spray? - police chief of Valdosta GA who is alleged to have taken bribes to allow brothels to operate and to have molested two underage girls

Mississippi

• Tom Pustay - Pass Christian MI chief investigator who ruled the 2002 death of Nikki LaDue (which may have been connected with a drug ring) a suicide, and resigned in 2005 facing charges of molesting an underage girl

Nebraska

• Robert Wadman - police chief of Omaha NE during the Franklin scandal

Nevada

• Vinten Hartung - Nevada Highway Patrol trooper who arrested Walter Gerald Ellis and was later revealed to have been in a sexual relationship with a teenager to whom he furnished alcohol

New York

• Eugene Gold - Brooklyn District Attorney (1969-1981) who prosecuted David Berkowitz as a lone killer while stymieing attempts to investigate a broader "Son of Sam" conspiracy, and was subsequently found to have molested the 10-year-old daughter of an Alabama prosecutor

North Carolina

• Robert Wadman - police chief of Wilmington NE who was formerly involved with the Franklin scandal in Omaha NE