As we’ve all seen from the Duke Lacrosse case, the methodologies employed by American law enforcement, and America’s legal system, have some very real prejudices regarding males.
But is it possible that biased, Violence Against Women Act, police profiling training was a factor in the deaths of 29 or 30 people in the recent shootings at Virginia Tech? No, police were not directly involved in pulling the trigger, but given the events of the first few hours at Virginia Tech, one must at least ask if police training was so flawed that it followed gender profiling prejudices over objective investigative techniques, and evidence gathering. As we all now see in 20/20 hindsight, police were clearly, “barking up the wrong tree,” while the real murder was preparing his more deadly assault.
Untold numbers of law enforcement in America, among others in the legal system, have been trained under STOP Grants funded by the gender biased Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and the same man (President Bush) who signed that memorial at Virginia Tech yesterday, signed the gender biased Violence Against Women Act into law.
Routinely, VAWA funded, STOP Grant trainings, and other domestic violence trainings, follow the biased, gender feminist, ideological profile of husbands, boyfriends, etc. (men) as batterers and wives and girlfriends (women) as victims.
http://www.dcjs.virginia.gov/grants/grantDescription.cfm?grant=22
In an article by Glenn Sacks, we get a glimpse of how domestic violence training of police works. Here is an excerpt from that article, where a domestic violence trainer was being interviewed:
http://www.glennsacks.com/baseball_players_domestic.htm
“Part of the problem is the training that police officers receive from the domestic violence industry, which insists that 95% of domestic violence is committed by men. Southern California domestic violence consultant Anne O’Dell, who has conducted over 500 domestic violence trainings of police officers and commanders, judges, district attorneys, and victim advocates, tells her trainees that “if a police officer is arresting more than 8% women, you’ve got a real problem. When an officer arrests 12% or 15% women, I’m outraged.” O’Dell says that dual arrests should occur in no more than 3% of incidents.
There is virtually no current data which supports the “95%” myth. According to the US Department of Justice’s 1998 Report on the National Violence Against Women Survey, men comprise nearly 40% of all domestic violence victims.”
In responding to the first shootings on the Virginia Tech campus, numerous news sources give an account of police finding a dead woman and a dead man in one of the campus buildings. Upon inquiring about the circumstances of the shooting, police obtained information about the dead woman’s boyfriend from a woman they interviewed. They also found out that the dead woman’s boyfriend allegedly ”had guns.” Evidently, that was enough for the police to profile the dead woman’s boyfriend as the primary suspect in this shooting to the exclusion of all others. That gave the real murderer more than ample time to put into place the logistics necessary for him to carry out the heinous murders of 29 other human beings in the hours and minutes that followed.
The boyfriend of the dead woman was stopped in his car at an off campus location and questioned by police. It was during the time that police were questioning the dead woman’s boyfriend that reports of the second series of shootings came into police. It appears the boyfriend of the dead woman in the first shooting was not arrested, although he remains an “important witness.”
I offer the followning general opinions for police everywhere, to counter the misandrist training coming from the, Violence Against Women (VAWA), STOP Grants:
# If the police spent as much time looking for real evidence of domestic violence as they do looking for rationalizations to fit their gender profiling prejudices,
# If the police spent as much time looking for real evidence of domestic violence as they do fabricating evidence to fit their gender profiling prejudices,
# If the police spent as much time looking for real evidence of domestic violence as they do destroying (or ignoring) real evidence to fit their gender profiling prejudices,
then there wouldn’t be nearly so many men being railroaded in our gender biased courts and having their lives destroyed by false charges of domestic violence - - - and to whatever extent it applies, there might possibly be 29 more people alive today at Virginia Tech, maybe 30.
In doing a search of the Internet, I see that Virginia Tech has a Women’s Studies program, Women’s Center, Take Back The Night Rallies, etc. to promote “women’s issues.” I could find no similar venues for Men’s Studies, or a Men’s Center, or “men’s issues.” One can only wonder what the atmosphere was like for men on this campus, and if curriculums in disciplines like English (the shooters major), have been infused with less than male friendly propaganda. Someone at Virginia Tech really needs to take a hard look at that, or even better, have someone accountable for accrediting Virginia Tech take a look.
Here are links to:
The Women’s Center At Virginia Tech
http://www.womenscenter.vt.edu/
The Women’s Center At Virginia Tech
Counseling and Advocacy Services
http://www.womenscenter.vt.edu/ADVOCACY.HTM
“Take Back the Night Rally and March set for March 29 (2007)
Blacksburg’s 18th annual Take Back the Night Rally and March will be held on Thursday, March 29 to bring the community together to reject violence against women…”
Introduction to Women’s Studies Syllabus
http://courseware.cc.vt.edu/users/toni/ws/wssyll.html
“One of the major contributions of women’s studies is the realization that white, middle-class, heterosexual and middle-aged men do represent the reality of all human society. Importantly, it is just as inappropriate to use the experience of white, middle-class, heterosexual women to represent all women. Thus, in this class we will focus on the interlocking systems of gender, race/ethnicity, class, and, ultimately, age oppression. We will assume that “reality” as we know it, including our social practices, beliefs, and knowledge, are heterosexist as well as racial/ethnic-, class-, gender-, and age-based.”
In my opinion, if less than male friendly propaganda were present at Virginia Tech leading up to these murders, such propaganda likely would not contribute to the well-being of any mentally disturbed male student(s) present there.
Lastly, the appearance that police seem to follow along so unquestionably with the politically correct, profiling prejudices so prevalent in America’s VAWA trained, legal system, does little to comfort me in this case, or assuage my suspicions that this type of profiling “screw up” may well happen again in other circumstances.
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