they are lured and encouraged by the top cop, beatrice muna brown. as the inspector general of the liberian national police, she is leading the fight against the country's worst crime problem, rape and sexual violence against women. during three waves of civil wars that killed nearly a quarter milon people and wasted liberia's homeland, wars fought, it is said, on the bodies of women, rape was used with appalling repetition as a weapon. where the fighting was fiercest, more than half the women experienced sexual violence. the war ended in 2003, but even now in peace, they say rape is the highest reported crime in the capital city monrovia. more than half of the cases involve girls 10 to 14. >> i think it's an issue of violence. it's an issue of power. sometimes i would say it's a sickness perhaps. >> reporter: deputy justice minister eva mappy-morgan said the key is exercising the strength of women. >> the fact that we in post war doesn't mean that those issues that men have, have been dealt with. we have to examine ourselves, see what it is we want