After more than 40 years as a prosecutor, Ellen Cohen has held firmly to two beliefs: Anyone can become a crime victim, and all victims deserve respect.
It’s why, as an AARP Florida volunteer, she educates law enforcement about ways to avoid inadvertently blaming or shaming the victim of a scam.
That means not asking a fraud victim “How could you fall for that?” or “What were you thinking?” says Cohen, 70, a Boca Raton resident who worked as a local prosecutor in Pennsylvania before spending most of her career as a federal prosecutor in South Florida…