It's exactly what you said: there's an assumption that somehow prostitutes are getting what they deserve, and the police were pretty slow off the mark until a non-prostitute was murdered. My problem with that is exactly the unconscious sorting of the deserving and the non deserving based on their 'morality'. This problem in separating the legal from the moral affects women AND men, but as I said earlier, we are talking about Sutcliffe so I'm talking about justice for women.
He didn't take anything out of the boot,he had the knife and hammer on him.Still it is a bit unbelievable that police anywhere would let a suspect wander off for a piss not to mention not searching him before going back to the station..where he hid another knife in the cistern of the toilet.No wonder they couldn't catch him with that thick attitude..Where were you last night..erm,with my wife..oh ok then you can go!
I suppose it's always the little things that finally get the killers. McVeigh (Oklahoma city bombing) was stopped for having no licence plate on his car. Bundy a broken tail light, Son of Sam a parking ticket. It's always the little things....
I don't understand why the police officer allowed Sutcliffe to take something out of the trunk of his car,. It could easily have been a gun. An American cop would never ever let that happen.
@MrCortazariano: I agree to a point but an American wouldn't let anyone get out of their car unless instructed by the officer to do so. On top of that an American cop would never allow anyone to open the trunk and then walk off with something in their hand.. you've got to admit that ?
well maybe there's a pejudice against prostitutes (sinners) in the collective unconscious. I don't understand what you mean about the treatment of women though?
Watering down the protests at the cinema, how convenient ......investigate the facts. Encouraging women to stay off the streets misinterpreted as a curfew, what else could the police do ? Not defending the police, never has a major investigation been conducted so ineptly, but the protest by this gathering of women was frankly ridiculous.
I didn't answer you because you didn't ask a question and I find it offensive that you're hypothesising about what I think based on no evidence. 1. More men than women are murdered - yes I know and sometimes I think the media are irresponsible in its reporting. The video, however, is about Sutcliffe and he killed women. 2. I'm not preoccupied with women as victims, but see point one. 3. Didn't mention female superiority and their deaths mattering more: your preoccupation not mine
is that so. You didn't answer anything I said. If this guy had killed men as well as women you would say nothing about the media, I find that offensive.
Surely it would have been better if those women had stayed at home and not protested, then the police presence wouldn't have been needed for the protest and the coppers could have spent their time far more productively trying to catch the ripper?
I'm sorry, I find the female reaction to this nauseating. In the 6 year period the Ripper murdered those women how many men were murdered in England? It's almost as if the fact he attacked women was worse. It was a terrible thing for the victims but not for women as a species. Dennis Nielsen was killing gay men around this time and somehow this is not as famous a case as Sutcliffe. Obviously the patriachal establishment took these murders seriously- look at the amount of effort put into it.
Read back what you spout you're a kid with an opinion about something you know f***a** about, lived through it, ask your mom! Is she old enough to remember? You clown, bedtime child
