Since 2015, transgender, sex-worker women have filed 14 complaints against officers for abuse of authority.
According to La Defensoría de los Habitantes, 12 accusations involve Public Force officers, 1 is against El Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) and the last one is against the local police.
Transgender women assured that officers often ignore their emergencies, they mock their work and they don’t respect their gender identity.
“Some days ago, the police cut my friend’s hair just because they wanted to. Then, they just left. They didn’t care if she was fine or not,” explained Susana Madrigal.
Dayanna Hernández, another transgender woman, said there are times when authorities “pretend” to pay attention to them, but they are just fooling around.
They ask about aggressors’ eyes’ color. Darling, how can we know that? We don’t pay attention to any color because when they start throwing stones at us, we just run. We are not staying there to get beaten. That’s stupid,” said Hernández.
The Ministry of Security reported that they know about the complaints against officers, but they assured they haven’t had access to the records.
María Fulmen, deputy minister of security, explained that without knowing the details, it is impossible to take legal action against the accused police officers.