Discuss @Fenwick 's latest article here
To combine 3 with 4 a bit, didn't the police encourage the "bystander effect" angle to distract from Moseley's unprompted confession to a separate crime they'd already arrested someone else for, or someyhing in that vein?
Great article!
Stupid Ripperology Theory: What if Jack the Ripper was a social activist who finally snapped and started committing murders to draw attention to conditions in Whitechapel?
Well, maybe murdering people who could do something about conditions in Whitechapel, but weren't, rather than murdering people who lived in Whitechapel ...
That said, logic isn't necessarily a strong point of serial killers.
Stupid Ripperology Theory: What if Jack the Ripper was a social activist who finally snapped and started committing murders to draw attention to conditions in Whitechapel?
This itself makes me need to talk about Do The Right Thing the Spike Lee film from 1989. In the film police shoot and kill Radio Raheem. Suddenly the community riots. Destroying the one white owned store. At the time it was making many folks scratch their heads. "If police killed someone... why did everyone get made at an innocent store owner?" and "[Lead Character] started the riot when he never showed any hatred towards anyone... why make such a switch?" But take that 1989 film and place it next to the LA riots and you start to get this notion, which I think is really telling in crime, which is how these seemingly random events can effect an entire community and shape it for years if not decades to come.
Add to this, Spike Lee's said that African-American viewers generally don't find this confusing.
A lot of that too is the sort of dynamic with a lot of immigrants, how because they don't grow up with the pop culture per se (how I didn't - I'm an immigrant myself) it's harder to approach it critically, so you start believing that unlike the blacks, "your people" are better because you made better of those circumstances. Like I have an aunt who said she'd go ballistic if her daughter brought home a black guy (unless it was the parish priest lol). So it exposes how racism can impact more than just, say, blacks and whites.Now for the LA Riots the flip side to Black-Asian relations requires me to ask, who is Latasha Harlins? Most do not know. If you go to law school you read how Harlins went into a Korean convivence store and by every single witness and evidence at the scene was acting perfectly lawfully when the store owner accused her of stealing a bottle of orange juice. Harlins left the store after throwing the bottle to the ground (she was a 15 year old accused of stealing and depending on the witness called a very improper name by the store owner) only to be SHOT DEAD in the back.