have you ever searched for sex offenders in your town. i just checked my town and guess what they are around every corner. i have no kids, but still
its pretty sick world and yes we are evil people....
this is the link for my state,
services.sled.sc.gov...
Fear of rape and sexual assaults over reported by media., page
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reply posted on 11-10-2007 @ 07:52 PM by Direwolf
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The government isn't creating them, it's just that you now know about them. There were the same amount of these sickos, maybe more in the past, you just weren't privy to the information about them. Now, if someone is caught and convicted, their name and whereabouts are availiable to the public. There are people out there who ensure that they are outed and watched. Trials and assaults are reported by the media, where before they weren't in the name of victims rights. If anything, the amount has dropped slightly as these sickos now know that there is a lasting repercussion to their crime.
The government isn't creating them, it's just that you now know about them. There were the same amount of these sickos, maybe more in the past, you just weren't privy to the information about them. Now, if someone is caught and convicted, their name and whereabouts are availiable to the public. There are people out there who ensure that they are outed and watched. Trials and assaults are reported by the media, where before they weren't in the name of victims rights. If anything, the amount has dropped slightly as these sickos now know that there is a lasting repercussion to their crime.
reply posted on 14-10-2007 @ 01:20 AM by greeneyedleo
reply to post by piacenza
Uh, yeah, they are around every corner. The amount of sex offenders in the nearest town to me is absolutely alarming.
It freaks me out actually.
However, what freaks me out even more....are all those twisted ***** who havent been caught yet....or, been reported.
I dont think its overrated by the media. I think its underrated.
And why do we know so much more? Uh, because technology has made it easier for everyone to know.....thank God.
[edit on 14-10-2007 by greeneyedleo]
Uh, yeah, they are around every corner. The amount of sex offenders in the nearest town to me is absolutely alarming.
It freaks me out actually.
However, what freaks me out even more....are all those twisted ***** who havent been caught yet....or, been reported. I dont think its overrated by the media. I think its underrated.
And why do we know so much more? Uh, because technology has made it easier for everyone to know.....thank God.
[edit on 14-10-2007 by greeneyedleo]
reply posted on 14-10-2007 @ 06:46 PM by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Fear of crime is a vastly overeported dilemma that has been going on since at least the end of WW2. It factors in with all of their oter
fear/terrormongering, such as that they used in the Cold War. Today Terrorism & Global Warming are the replacement for Cold War fear, although the
Bush admin is doing a great job of kickstarting a new Cold War with Russia & friends.
In fact, after 9/11 Bush even went as far as to liken "Terrorists" to the mafia, directly. He taught us to fear terrorists like the shadow mafia, and then he taught us to fear Hussein as much as Osama. Now, they're teaching us to fear "Global Warming" like we do Terrorism, and its working.
It's about keeping us in a perpetual state of fear, and when theres no "good" fear monger stories like recent terrorism then they switch over to other subjects to fill the void. For instance, there are typically over 100 BIG NEWS grade kidnapping events each year, but they usually only 'report' a handful. Report meaning WOAH EVERYBODY FREAK OUT, because we're going to report on this like OJ. 'Look how sick humans are', 'the enemy is your spouse, your neighbor', etc. So is that undereporting? Not quite, its actually them fillng in the blanks until some new captivating and freakish grand scale thing occurs. The Media is, by definiton, a classic example of "Distater Capitalists".
The fear of crime dimension is a very well studied and understood issue, in academic circles anyways. Here goes some scholarly papers for you (I honestly dont have time to yank citations today):
www.jc2m.co.uk...
www.blackwell-synergy.com...
www.cleen.org...
Follow up on their citations and keywords, and add "PDF" to your google searches to target scholarly papers.
I could carry on and on about this, but for a short perspective on-topic they report things far more than than statistics actually apply to the real world. Its about making it look like more of a problem than it is, to say the least. I highly recomend you all take the time to at least read my first link there. Enter my profile and click my threads tab and you can find some of my writings about modern fearmongering involving terrorism and global warming.
[edit on 14-10-2007 by IgnoranceIsntBlisss]
In fact, after 9/11 Bush even went as far as to liken "Terrorists" to the mafia, directly. He taught us to fear terrorists like the shadow mafia, and then he taught us to fear Hussein as much as Osama. Now, they're teaching us to fear "Global Warming" like we do Terrorism, and its working.
It's about keeping us in a perpetual state of fear, and when theres no "good" fear monger stories like recent terrorism then they switch over to other subjects to fill the void. For instance, there are typically over 100 BIG NEWS grade kidnapping events each year, but they usually only 'report' a handful. Report meaning WOAH EVERYBODY FREAK OUT, because we're going to report on this like OJ. 'Look how sick humans are', 'the enemy is your spouse, your neighbor', etc. So is that undereporting? Not quite, its actually them fillng in the blanks until some new captivating and freakish grand scale thing occurs. The Media is, by definiton, a classic example of "Distater Capitalists".
The fear of crime dimension is a very well studied and understood issue, in academic circles anyways. Here goes some scholarly papers for you (I honestly dont have time to yank citations today):
www.jc2m.co.uk...
www.blackwell-synergy.com...
www.cleen.org...
Follow up on their citations and keywords, and add "PDF" to your google searches to target scholarly papers.
I could carry on and on about this, but for a short perspective on-topic they report things far more than than statistics actually apply to the real world. Its about making it look like more of a problem than it is, to say the least. I highly recomend you all take the time to at least read my first link there. Enter my profile and click my threads tab and you can find some of my writings about modern fearmongering involving terrorism and global warming.
[edit on 14-10-2007 by IgnoranceIsntBlisss]
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