By Stephen Young
Sunday morning, Dallas police
officer David Kattner was arrested for allegedly using his authority to coerce
a woman into having sex with him while he was in uniform. An arrest affidavit
obtained by The Dallas Morning News says Kattner called a woman and told her to
follow him to the 9700 block of Webb Chapel Road in North Dallas. Once there,
he allegedly forced her to have oral sex with him in his marked police car. He
kept one of his hands on his gun throughout the assault, the affidavit says.
Detectives in the area saw Kattner
and the woman, according to police, and stopped the woman when she got out of
the car. She told the detectives that the Sunday morning attack was the third
time Kattner assaulted her. According to the News, the affidavit does not
identify the alleged victim as a prostitute specifically, but says Kattner
contacted "known female prostitutes" in order to force them to have
sex with him while he was working a second job. The woman, police say, said
Kattner showed her her outstanding warrants and threatened to harm the woman's
daughter if the woman didn't do what Kattner wanted.
Kattner is the second Dallas
cop in the last two years arrested for illegal activity with sex workers.
Jose Luis Bedoy, a former
Dallas vice cop, resigned in 2013 after being arrested for trading police
information for sex. When he was caught, he told the woman he gave information
to that she should leave town and get rid of her cell phone. He was convicted
of obstructing a federal grand jury investigation in October.
In 2010, rookie police officer
Jeffrey Thorn was fired for allegedly forcing two prostitutes to have sex with
him during the same shift so they could avoid arrest.
It's worth noting the Kattner
was part of a group of five police officers who sued D Magazine for defamation after
a 2007 article that accused them of issuing tickets to prostitutes and the
homeless for offenses that didn't happen so the cops could later pick them up
on the felony charge of not paying misdemeanor tickets. The cops lost the
lawsuit.
Kattner has been placed on
administrative leave pending the result of the investigation. He is assigned to
the Northeast Patrol Division and is 26-year DPD veteran.