A second pervo-cop has resigned from the Portland Police Bureau in less than a year today, pleading guilty to official misconduct after being accused of preying sexually on at least four transient women.
PERVO-COP: Objective four…classified…

33-year-old East Precinct officer Matthew Kohnke was accused by a 27-year-old woman of “unprofessionally searching” her in June. Things progressed from there after detectives began an investigation. The report into Kohnke’s behavior reads:

Officer Matthew Kohnke has been identified by four different women who have complained about their contact with him. Two of these women complain that their search of him was sexual in nature. Another complains that he made sexual comments to her during a police call and continued to return to see her. The fourth complainant reports that Officer Kohnke’s contact was also sexual in nature and offensive.

In other words, he’s fucked. Kohnke’s resignation follows the resignation of another officer, John Wood last November—after he asked women to look at their underwear during traffic stops.

I stand by my assertion earlier this week that most cops are good people, and that they’re likely to be extremely embarrassed by the less than 1% of their colleagues who royally fuck up. But in this case I’d go beyond “extremely embarrassed,” and start with words like “speechlessly mortified” and “dripping with chagrin.” Before words failed me…