Rapes are up by 25% in Dallas. The police chief's solution: Blame victims.
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While liveblogging a Dallas public safety meeting, Dallas Observer reporter Andrea Grimes writes:
I'm looking at the graph type thing that's up on the screen right now, and I'm seeing that burglary of motor vehicles id down 10 percent, and that murder's down 14.1 percent, and that ... rape is up 25.3 percent? Dave Neumann's been hammering Brown for the past few minutes about car break-ins near Mountain Creek Parkway and about the effectiveness of police patrols and general presence in neighborhoods, and Delia Jasso's joining in, wondering how many property crimes are being perpetrated in the Mountain Creek Parkway area by residents, or are these out-of-towners?
And I am like, holy cow, can we get back to the one-quarter increase in rape? But Ms. Jasso read my mind, asking the Chief to explain the 25.3 percent increase in rapes -- is it that victims are reporting rapes more frequently, or that more rapes are happening? The answer, unfortunately: More rapes, says Chief Brown, specifically date rapes. And we all know what the solution to date rape is: getting women to stop drinking, because that is what causes date rape. Not dudes raping women, but women drinking.
"We're needing to create a message to the victims of this type of crime, related to, you know, someone you don't know that well, you having a little bit too much to drink," explains Chief Brown, suggesting women, "have your friends watch you" if you intend to drink in front of a man.
Well thanks, Chief! I hope you remind women to ask their friends to watch them when they're around Dallas police officers, too.
Contact information for expressing your desire to punch something and/or patiently explaining why the chief of police should maybe reexamine his approach to sexual assault prevention:
Jack Evans Police Headquarters
1400 S. Lamar St.
Dallas, Texas 75215
214-671-3001
Mayor Tom Leppert
Dallas City Hall
1500 Marilla Street, Room 5EN
Dallas, TX 75201
Phone: 214-670-4054 Fax: 214-670-0646
http://www.dallascityhall.com/government/government.html
While liveblogging a Dallas public safety meeting, Dallas Observer reporter Andrea Grimes writes:
I'm looking at the graph type thing that's up on the screen right now, and I'm seeing that burglary of motor vehicles id down 10 percent, and that murder's down 14.1 percent, and that ... rape is up 25.3 percent? Dave Neumann's been hammering Brown for the past few minutes about car break-ins near Mountain Creek Parkway and about the effectiveness of police patrols and general presence in neighborhoods, and Delia Jasso's joining in, wondering how many property crimes are being perpetrated in the Mountain Creek Parkway area by residents, or are these out-of-towners?
And I am like, holy cow, can we get back to the one-quarter increase in rape? But Ms. Jasso read my mind, asking the Chief to explain the 25.3 percent increase in rapes -- is it that victims are reporting rapes more frequently, or that more rapes are happening? The answer, unfortunately: More rapes, says Chief Brown, specifically date rapes. And we all know what the solution to date rape is: getting women to stop drinking, because that is what causes date rape. Not dudes raping women, but women drinking.
"We're needing to create a message to the victims of this type of crime, related to, you know, someone you don't know that well, you having a little bit too much to drink," explains Chief Brown, suggesting women, "have your friends watch you" if you intend to drink in front of a man.
Well thanks, Chief! I hope you remind women to ask their friends to watch them when they're around Dallas police officers, too.
Contact information for expressing your desire to punch something and/or patiently explaining why the chief of police should maybe reexamine his approach to sexual assault prevention:
Jack Evans Police Headquarters
1400 S. Lamar St.
Dallas, Texas 75215
214-671-3001
Mayor Tom Leppert
Dallas City Hall
1500 Marilla Street, Room 5EN
Dallas, TX 75201
Phone: 214-670-4054 Fax: 214-670-0646
http://www.dallascityhall.com/government/government.html