Saturday, August 17, 2013

White On White Crime

So is anything interesting happening with white on white crime?
Are any new deterrents in place to ease it?
It seemed quite often to be mainly against women when violence was involved.
And when I peruse TV channels, I see a lot of crime reality depicting various types of violence,
sparing us most violence against children.
There is a show called Snapped.
One is called Dateline. Then we have...
American Justice
I Almost Got Away With It
Missing
Dominick Dunne's crime dramas... (Dunne's daughter was killed by someone who did not pay for the crime.)
I Killed My BFF
Caught On Camera
Nancy Grace
Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry?
Mobsters
Gangsters
There are more.
I hope the Violence Against Women Act,  recently passed in the U.S. Congress, has helped.
When Debbie Stabenow was in the Michigan legislature women in Michigan got a lot safer on a very
regular basis. I have no idea how she worked her magic, but the fact that she did was wonderfully
inspiring to me.
I can think of some who didn't like it at all of course.
In one case, a man brought a woman he didn't know, but met at a bar, to his home the same night he met her.
When he got cantankerous, the lady called the police.
When the officers arrived, they removed him from his own house.
In Michigan, no one could make another person feel threatened in a domicile- any domicile.
Once, in a downtown  Detroit courtroom,   I saw a very quiet lady was speaking to a female judge.
The judge was asking her if her husband had raised his voice eat her in their shared home.
This lady seemed to be in her late thirties, very pretty. I wondered why she was so intimidated.
She answered the judge, saying her husband had indeed shouted at her.
The judged then asked the husband if he had raised his voice at his wife.
The husband answered the judge in the affirmative, admitted he had done what he was accused of doing.
So the judged asked the woman if she called the police because her husband had frightened her.
Barely above a whisper, the woman admitted she had become frightened.
The judged then informed the couple the husband would have to be legally barred from their home
until he had completed anger management courses
The couple looked panicked.
The judge asked them both if they understood her order of  "no contact".
The lady said she couldn't afford to pay the family bills if her husband paid room and board
somewhere else.
The judge got the lady's husband to agree he could stay with a family member.
Then, the judge admonished against either of them compromising her ruling, then let them go.
I remember thinking, "Wow, this couldn't be more serious. I hope this family will be OK."
This couple was black, but the laws were state laws.
Later, a friend of mine was locked up for a night. His girlfriend (a family member of another of my
friends) accused him of threatening her. So he had to be in jail a certain number of hours in case his
girl wanted time to get away, leaving no forwarding information.  That was the law.
That made me nearly breathless.
Michigan was serious about its women.
Thank you Debbie.
Now, though, one wonders if anything has been rolled back. I hope not.
People of all colors are apparently capable of doing great bodily harm to one another.
Is any of that important during Stop And Frisk climates?
If not, what is happening to victims of crimes not reported, not prosecuted, or conveniently not noted in police files.
Does any of the suffering and/or intimidation of people not Black or Hispanic merit the serious
consideration of officers who have had time to Stop 4.3 million minority young between 2004 and 2008?
Sure. Police resources are limitless.

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