Talk on Female Crime Leaves Two Speechless (Out of the Kitchen and into the Pokey)

San Jose Mercury ^ | 2/27/05

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It's well-established that a bad economy leads to more crime. But is the women's liberation movement also to blame?

According to Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy, it is.

At a recent county board of supervisors subcommittee meeting, Kennedy was asked to comment on statistics showing a spike in the number of inmates at county jail. The female jail population grew significantly faster than the male population over the last few years.

"This is a nationwide thing with females and I think it has to do with females being more liberated and independent in every way," he told the subcommittee, comprising two female supervisors, Blanca Alvarado and Liz Kniss.

Just in case he wasn't clear, the DA reiterated his point a few minutes later: "If you look at the flowering of the women's movement, you're going to find criminality increases right in parallel with it on the part of females." Kennedy went on to assure the panel that "I'm not passing judgment on anything."

Word after the meeting was that participants were so dumbfounded by Kennedy's remarks that no one challenged him ("I'll have to research that" was about all Alvarado mustered in response). So I tried to check in with Kennedy for some elaboration.

He was out of the office Friday, but Karyn Sinunu, one of his top deputies, came to his defense. She pointed to one criminologist, L. Michael McCartney of American International College in Massachusetts, quoted in a newspaper article saying that as women have joined the workforce it has given them more opportunities to commit crimes.

She added that Kennedy, a moderate Republican in his fourth term as DA, has a fine record when it comes to women; two of his top deputies are female. "No one has given women more opportunities and encouraged more women than he has," Sinunu said.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Lawrence Summers, please step aside. Your replacement has arrived.

[Enterprise]

"Out of the Kitchen and into the Pokey"

It's all them wimmins fault.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #1

An aspect of gender equality feminazi's would rather cover up.:)

[DakotaGator]

It's well-established that a bad economy leads to more crime.

That's BS! Crime didn't spike during the Great Depression. Poverty doesn't cause crime. But crime definitely causes poverty.

More to the point, it's the breakdown of morals and social mores that leads to crime. And that's a key element of the Feminist Movement.

Not only has the San Jose Mecury News swallowed the liberal lies hook-line-and sinker, but it regularly spews it forth as gospel.

[Virginia Queen]

It's called equality. Who said women could not be as bad as men? What nerve! Should make the NOW people real happy to see that women will soon have as many jails/prisons as men. Man! WHAT A DAY! Our ancestors must be looking down on us with great pride. (SARCASTIC, TONGUE IN CHEEK)

[umgud]

What did you expect from a group of people who couldn't even be trained to leave a toilet seet up?

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seet = seat

[Fido969]

This is an interesting debate, women prisoners are a fraction of the number of men, (I think there are something like 7 men jailed for every women jailed,) but the number has been increasing at a faster rate. While I doubt that women will ever catch up to men in the incarceration department, they have been slowly closing the gap.

The fems are upset about this. To make a long story short - the fems believe: "man bad, woman good". I have seen amazing contortions made by fems to justify the most violent behavior of some women, and to claim those women are "victims" rather than, a drunk who slashed another woman at a bar with a beer bottle.

So, some of the fems have taken up the cause that the fact that more women are being jailed as "proof" that our legal and court system is biased against women.

I do not know, but I suspect, that this was a "set-up" a la Larry Summers by the fems to create a show-trial for their cause. The DA in this case will be helpless to resist, like Summers, he will have to stand there, head down and repentant while various feminist nitwits express predictable "outrage" and make demands for more influence on the system, programs and funding.

The person who handled this situation the best way I ever saw was Hootie Johnson. These people live off the illusion of power, and if you can call their bluff, they end up looking stupid, indeed.

[Ditto]

It's well-established that a bad economy leads to more crime.

Not true.

[rdcorso]

During the 90's when the economy was at its best female prisons in Connecticut were so over crowded they converted male housing to female.The criminal process is the same between males and females.They start doing drugs and when they can' afford them anymore they turn to prostitution and robbery which buys them a ticket to jail.

[sure_fine]

Naked Babysitter Sentenced To Year In Jail
By ADAM EMERSON aemerson@tampatrib.com
Published: Feb 26, 2005




CLEARWATER - A 23-year-old babysitter who removed her clothes in front of the 4-year- old boy in her care will spend a year in jail, a judge ordered Friday.
After sobbing throughout her sentencing hearing, Sarah Slicker stood blank-eyed in front of Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Brandt Downey, listening as the judge weighed whether to punish her as a pedophile or as a naive woman who made a mistake.

He sentenced her to 15 years in prison, then suspended 14 years of that term. She will serve the remaining year at the Pinellas County Jail.

The St. Petersburg woman told jurors at her trial that a lapse of judgment led her to disrobe at the request of the 4- year-old boy. The boy's mother came home unexpectedly and found Slicker naked on the couch with her son.

Slicker, who did not speak at her sentencing, has said she was under stress from working as a nanny for 60 hours a week while caring for three families.

Family members, friends and therapists Friday described Slicker as a kind, Christian woman who is quick to please people, if a bit naive. She has poor self-esteem and has trouble refusing requests from others, supporters said.

``People have come here not to support a sexual predator but someone they know intimately,'' her father, Michael Slicker, told the judge. ``Please, don't take away her hope.''

When her father spoke, Sarah Slicker put her head in her hands and cried.

Friends and relatives of the boy's parents wore tags that read, ``Protect Our Children.''

Although the boy's mother forgave Slicker, she and her husband called her a pedophile. Slicker cared for their boy for three months.

They asked Downey to sentence her to 15 years in prison, the maximum punishment for her crime.

``Home is supposed to be a place of serenity,'' the boy's mother said. ``Sarah Slicker has robbed us of that serenity.''

When she completes her jail time, Slicker must serve two years of house arrest, followed by 10 years of probation. She also must register with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement as a sex offender.


Reporter Adam Emerson can be reached at (727) 451-2332

[sure_fine]

He sentenced her to 15 years in prison, then suspended 14 years of that term

[Fido969]

The "female pedophilia" issue is coming to the forefront now. Had she been a 14 year-old babysitter, I think this could have been forgiven as very bad judgment, but lets consider the consequence had this been a male. Without getting into a debate about deviant sexual difference between genders, I doubt if a case where a parent came home and found a naked adult male babysitter with their child would have been treated less severely.

I mean, there is something weird and creepy about getting naked in someone else's house while you are babysitting.

[Nick Danger]

What was the underlying hypothesis here, that women are so sweet and wonderful that they are incapable of committing crimes? Or that "PC" requires that we not talk about it?

God forbid that anybody finds out that there are women serial killers, or that infanticides (committed almost exclusively by women) are as numerous as any other kind of murder.

It's as if "sugar and spice and everything nice" has become a religious principle, and anyone who says otherwise is some kind of heretic. Meanwhile, another gang of teenage girls knifes another girl to death to take her shoes.

I think that the moral superiority of women, so long a part of the female supremacists' proaganda offensive, is not going to make it past the Reality Test.

Build the jails; here they come.

[jordan8]

Isn't that pretty much the theme of Thelma and Louise?

[driftless]

A co-worker and I have a laugh whenever we read about embezzling in our local rag. From what we have anecdotally determined, it seems that better than ninety percent of the people caught embezzling in our area are women. They usually claim large gambling debts as a reason for dipping into the till. Undoubtedly men commit the great majority of the violent crimes, but we have noticed a preponderance of females who commit crimes of work-place theft like embezzling.

We don't know if men are better at getting away with embezzling or if most bookkeepers are female. But the great number of women in my part of the country who have been found guilty of embezzling or work-place theft in recent years would lead me to ask all firms who employ women as bookkeepers to check their books thoroughly on a regular basis. Or find out if their female bookkeeper likes to gamble. Maybe embezzling is one crime where females have acheived a sort of dubious equality or even superiority over men.

[FormerACLUmember]

Feminism = Liberalism = Criminality

[Nick Danger]

Maybe embezzling is one crime where females have acheived a sort of dubious equality or even superiority over men.

Women have long been well-represented in white collar crimes like fraud, larceny, and embezzlement. I think what's new is that people are astonished that women can also be violent. In some jurisdictions, women are now 25% of those under "correctional supervision." They have a way to go before they're half, but that will be a dubious distinction.

Some of this came about because of mandatory sentencing guidelines. It used to be that chivalrous judges would give a woman six months for murdering somebody. With the mandatory guidelines, women are getting socked with the same kind of sentences a man would get for the same crime. To jailers, that looks like the jails are filling up with women. But it might not mean more crime... just stiffer sentencing.

[DakotaGator]

We are seeing the leading edge results of 40 years of assault on the status of women in Western Civilization.

The nonsense spouted by liberals is that men and women are the same. From this false premise, the liberal logic is that women should do everything that men do. Basically, liberals want women to be "pretend men" and emulate all of the "bad" male behavior, i.e. drunkenness, fighting, lewd and coarse behavior, promiscuity, crime, etc.

Liberals reject all of Western Civilization's concepts of women being the guardians of morals and civilization with one exception, they don't believe women should be held to the same accountability as men. But even the liberal courts can no longer turn a blind eye to the degenerating behavior of Western Women. They are being held accountable in increasing numbers. And their prisons are overflowing.

Those leading this liberal charge into barbarism are the Feminazis. Their whole agenda is not to elevate the circumstances of women, but to destroy Western Civilization. And they are achieving that goal.

Women don't win on this. Society loses...big time!