Okin v. Village of Cornwall-On-Hudson Police Department

How courts have described this case

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• holding that officers who “openly expressed camaraderie with [an abuser] 23 and contempt for [the victim]” increased the danger to the victim
• holding that affirmative conduct of government official could support due process violation if the conduct communicated, explicitly or implicitly, official sanction of private violence and collecting cases
• recognizing that due process prohibits police conduct that encourages intentional violence against victim
• finding that plaintiffs’ allegations of officers’ repeated failure to address obvious domestic abuse created triable issue about officers’ deliberate indifference and their conscience-shocking behavior
• finding that defendants “actually contributed to the vulnerability of [the victim]” such that the victim was “safer before the state action than . . . after it.”
• affirming summary judgment because plaintiff had not demonstrated the requisite disparate treatment of her domestic violence com- plaint

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).