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| “ | Girls like Quinny, you just throw 'em a few crumbs, they're so grateful they'll do anything for you. | „ |
| ~ West bragging about his hold over Ryan Quinn |
Officer West (first name unknown) is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Internal Affairs". He is a corrupt police officer who rapes the drunk women he arrests.
He was portrayed by David Conrad.
Overview[]
West is a low-level patrol officer in the NYPD's 12th Precinct, which is notorious within the department for its corruption; most of its officers take bribes from criminals, abuse drugs, rape drunk women they arrest during their patrol hours, or all three. West frequently commits the lattermost crime; he arrests drunk women coming home from bars for driving under the influence or disorderly conduct, takes them back to their homes instead of to the drunk tank, and then overpowers and rapes them. He also stalks his victims afterward to intimidate them into silence.
His crimes are enabled by his partner, Officer Ryan Quinn, who looks the other way while he assaults his victims out of gratitude for his providing her with clean urine for a drug test, concealing her cocaine addiction and saving her job. It is also implied that West cheated on his wife, with whom he has a child, with Quinn; he knows that she is in love with him and uses it to manipulate her into keeping his crimes a secret.
"Internal Affairs"[]
When Officer Michael Groves threatens to reveal the corruption within the 12th Precinct, especially the rapes West is committing, its Lieutenant, Terrance Wood, orders West and Quinn to arrest him and have him committed to a prison psychiatric ward. Groves tells his friend and fellow patrol officer Brian Cassidy about West's crimes, and Cassidy asks his girlfriend, Sergeant Olivia Benson of the Special Victims Unit, to investigate. Benson talks to several women West victimized, some of whom he has raped multiple times, and resolves to put him in prison.
Meanwhile, Captain Ed Tucker of the Internal Affairs Bureau opens a secret investigation of West's crimes as part of a larger effort to clean up the 12th Precinct. He lets the SVU team in on the investigation, and Cassidy, who had recently been demoted, volunteers to go undercover as West's new temporary partner in return for getting his detective's shield back and exonerating Groves.
While riding with West, Cassidy helps him arrest an apparently drunk woman - who is actually SVU Detective Amanda Rollins, taking part in the investigation - who is making a scene at a bar, but he prevents him from raping her by lying that they have been called in to another crime scene. Later that night, West and Quinn take Cassidy to a brothel, both to celebrate his first night on duty and to have incriminating information about him that will keep him from revealing their crimes. Fortunately, Cassidy does not have sex with any prostitutes, which keeps the investigation above board, although he does allow them to touch him to maintain his cover, all while an uncomfortable Benson listens in.
In order to reveal the entire precinct's corruption, Tucker tells Wood that Cassidy is working undercover, so Wood tells West and Quinn to kill him. They ambush Cassidy and find that he is wearing a wire, so they take him out to a shipyard to execute him. Before they get the chance, however, Benson and her partner, Detective Nick Amaro, rescue Cassidy and arrest West and Quinn for attempted murder of a police officer and multiple counts of rape.
During his interrogation, West claims that he had consensual sex with his victims and that Cassidy had tried to kill him and Quinn, forcing them to draw their weapons in self-defense. Benson and Amaro get Quinn to confess, however, by telling her that West had bragged to Cassidy about using her and that he will put all of the blame for his crimes on her the second he gets the chance. Finally seeing West for who he is, Quinn tells Benson and Amaro about all of the women he raped, as well as about the crimes committed by the other officers in the 12th Precinct.
West and Quinn are both found guilty of the attempted murder of a police officer and of multiple counts of rape; West is imprisoned for life, while Quinn gets a reduced sentence in return for her testimony. Cassidy, meanwhile, gets his detective's shield back, and Groves is exonerated and released.
External links[]
- Officer West on the Law & Order Wiki
