Posted on 12/26/2014 8:45:23 AM PST by Altura Ct.
Paige Stalker might be alive today had she learned about Routine Activity Theory.
But she is dead and two of her friends are critically wounded, the latest poster children for R.A.T.: White people in black neighborhoods should expect to be the victims of racial violence.
Paige was one of five teenagers from an upscale neighborhood in nearby Grosse Point who were on their way to the movies three days before Christmas when they decided to pull over and smoke marijuana in Detroit.
While they were getting a high, a black man with a high-powered rifle approached their car and fired 30 rounds into it, killing Paige.
Paige and her friends learned the hard way what in 2012 became well known in a Chicago courtroom. The case revolved around a white woman who was released from jail into a black neighborhood. Hours later, she was thrown out of the seventh-story window of a local housing project.
Her parents sued the city of Chicago, saying the city should have known their white daughter would be a victim of violence in that black neighborhood.
That was the testimony of Harvard sociology professor Robert Sampson and what the judge said when he described R.A.T. The woman “was a white female in a predominantly black, poor neighborhood (and) she had a much higher risk of predatory victimization.”
The judge said the situation was so transparently dangerous (link corrected) that Chicago police “might as well have released her into the lions’ den at the Brookfield Zoo.”
The city’s lawyers claimed the professor was guilty of racial profiling and demanded the judge throw out his testimony. Judge Frank Easterbrook scorned that argument and approved a judgment against the city for $22.5 million.
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Wow Cranwell is only 3/4 hour’s drive from here ! Lincolnshire’s nickname used to be “Bomber Command County” because of the large number of RAF bases.My Grandad was a bomb-aimer in a Lancaster with 150 sqn, based at Hemswell, near Gainsborough.
RAF Manby is only 3 miles from here, did you ever go there ?
Back in the 90’s, been in the DC area only a day and finished my first day at the Pentagon, driving back to Andrews, not aware of DC drivers and such, tried move from left lane to right/center lane to avoid a exit-only lane onto MLK Blvd. .NO ONE WOULD LET ME OVER. . .(could have done the usual DC thing and just start over and make room, but was naive and polite). . .
I ended up exiting on MLK and was immediately lost in a no-kidding scary place. Seriously.
Lucky for me a DC police car was there and they pulled me over because they profiled this middle age white male and knew I didn't belong there. Told me to follow them and they would get me out of the area.
They led and I survived.
Enjoyed Lincolnshire and Sleaford had an italian place that I would always get take-away meals that were great.
Worked at the Thompson Bldg at RAF Waddington. Waddington had the Vulcan on a stick in front of my office building.
I liked living away from the tourist areas and living the RAF life. Heck, taking lunch at the mess and then relaxing in front of the fire to drink coffee and read the paper. . .now that is a truly civilized work day.
Often better to refrain from discussion when possters intentions are other than that.
....”being set up by police to get assaulted, raped, and murdered?”....
Well if you choose to believe that happened then tis your choice.
....”immediately lost in a no-kidding scary place. Seriously.... police car was there and they pulled me over because they profiled this middle age white male and knew I didn’t belong there. Told me to follow them and they would get me out of the area....They led and I survived”....
Happened to me in Florida.....two police car pulled up along side and in front....asked where I was heading...they escorted me there.
I had to take an exit because I was lost...knew I was in a bad place as bars on stores and or boarded up. Police seem to be able to recognize those who “don’t belong”.
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