NYC sex-assault survivors ask feds to probe NYPD over alleged gender bias

More than a dozen Big Apple sexual-assault survivors have penned a letter to the Department of Justice asking for a probe into the NYPD’s “ongoing mistreatment of gender-based-violence” victims and its alleged failure to properly investigate their cases, The Post has learned. 

The letter — sent Monday to US Attorney General Merrick Garland, his top deputy, Vanita Gupta, and the assistant attorney general of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, Kristen Clarke — asks the feds to open a “patterns-or-practice” probe into the NYPD to examine allegations of gender bias when investigating sex crimes.  “Because we wanted to protect others from the kinds of harm we suffered, as well as to seek justice for ourselves, we reported our assaults to the NYPD,” says the letter, signed by 19 people — 17 gender-based-violence survivors and two mothers of victims.