NEW YORK (AP) -- Police say officers watching a security camera have helped catch a rape suspect at a Brooklyn housing complex, two months after a similar attack at another complex revealed that officers there were lying about patrols.
Police say officers watching the cameras saw something suspicious early Saturday in a stairwell at the West 23rd Street building. Other officers soon found the 19-year-old female victim, searched the building and arrested the suspect, a 22-year-old homeless man. The victim has been taken to a hospital in stable condition.
In March, two other officers were stripped of their guns and badges for falsely claiming they had patrolled the stairwells in a different Brooklyn complex where a woman was raped in a stairway. That building's surveillance cameras showed the officers were lying, but it wasn't clear whether the cameras captured the attack.
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