Man in the window contains depictions of sexual violence and is not suitable for everyone.

Please be advised. Lieutenant Mike Garlock of the Auburn Police Department spends nearly a year

laboriously whiting out names and addresses. For more than a thousand 1970s duty reports he hands me in small

batches. What strikes him in all of this is patrolman Joseph De Angelo's consistency.

A victim or person or a citizen called up asking for an officer and he was sent and that was about it.

He consistently lacks initiative.

Officer De Angelo at the time just handled his calls for service and that's what he did and it didn't seem to me like there was much in terms of what they call an art profession is

proactivity which would mean looking for suspects or looking for crimes that

might be occurring or suspicious people or prowlers.

De Angelo does show initiative in pulling over young people,

particularly women,

to cite them for alcohol.

He holds two teen girls to jail for stealing.

Yes, two candy bars.

A disquieting insensitivity sometimes bleeds through his reports.

De Angelo quotes a woman getting obscene phone calls as saying her harasser has a, quote,

pleasant voice.

Red alongside the East Area Rapist Crime Reports, these duty logs paint an odd

juxtaposition of small town policing with a predator more obsessed than skilled.

There's the officer De Angelo who escorts citizens to make bank deposits,

gives a drunk a ride home, checks an empty house for a woman so she knows she's safe.

Most of the attacks occur when he has a few days off. His wife told the court she thought

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