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Pa. perv guilty in Queens rape

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step toward our mutual goal of transparen­cy in policing,” Hart said.

The memo does not govern the release of footage to the public, including the media.

Those rules were the subject of a City Council hearing on Monday where the NYPD was criticized for saying that in some cases it would release a “representa­tive sample” of requested footage under the Freedom of Informatio­n Law. Several council members said releasing an edited version of what happened wouldn’t answer the public’s concerns about an incident.

In 2013, a federal judge ordered an NYPD camera program after ruling cops had violated the rights of minorities by using stop and frisk unconstitu­tionally. A subsequent pilot program was then expanded, in stages, throughout the entire department.

More than 24,000 cops now wear body cameras.

A Pennsylvan­ia man has been convicted of raping a woman in a Queens apartment that he helped her find.

Court records show Ashok Singh was found guilty Wednesday. The 58year-old from Easton, Pa., is set for sentencing Dec. 19.

A message was left Friday for his attorney.

Queens Acting District Attorney John Ryan says the 40-year-old woman was looking for apartments-for-rent fliers at a house of worship in December 2015 when she encountere­d Singh, who offered to help her househunt.

Prosecutor­s say he called her four days later to say he’d found a place. He helped her move and bought food and wine.

Ryan says Singh became enraged and forcibly raped the woman after she refused to drink alcohol with him. She ran for help after he fell asleep.

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