Hate Crimes on the Homeless.... the psychology behind the attacks.

LARGEST NUMBER OF HATE CRIMES ARE AGAINST HOMELESS

 

From Indybay.org
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Hate Crimes Against Homeless Outnumber All Other Hate Crimes Combined
by Edward Campbell

1,074 bias motivated attacks against the homeless reported between 1999 and 2010 including 43 murders, 291 murders in the past decade according to statistics compiled by the organization.

Hate Crimes against the homeless documented in this years report included, “dosing with gasoline and setting aflame; rape in exchange for shelter; spay painting and stomping upon while sleeping; and, repeated incidence of gang initiations involving stabbings and beatings,” 1 in 3 resulting in death in this drastically under reported field of criminology.

Although hate crimes against the homeless were reported in 47 states, California and Florida were the most deadly places for the homeless to live in 2010 with more than 100 violent attacks upon the homeless in each; 213 were reported in California, 117 in Florida.

The FBI does not officially recognize violent crimes against the homeless as legitimate hate crime and local police departments were blamed for nearly 6% of all hate crimes against homeless men and women.

The Coalition also noted that as many communities across the united states increase their pressure on the homeless: 'There is a documented relationship between increased police action and the increasing numbers of hate crimes/violent acts against homeless people...One possible explanation for this is the message that criminalizing homelessness sends to the general public: “Homeless people do not matter and are not worthy of living in our city.”

This message is blatant in the attitudes many cities have toward homeless people and can be used as an internal justification for attacking someone who is homeless.'

The most common victim of a hate crime against the homeless was reported to be a middle aged man between 40-60 years of age, the most common perpetrators were young men 78% under 25 nearly half under the age of 20. 85% of the total number of victims were male.

In Redding California three teenage boys beat a homeless man to death with metal pipes and makeshift bats. In Colorado Springs, Colorado a 19 year old man beat a homeless man to death with a skateboard and latter bragged to his friends “I just killed a bum.” In Cleveland, Ohio, a serial killer raped and killed 11 homeless women. In North Little Rock, Arkansas a homeless man was shot by a high powered hunting rife from a car wind, the police have no suspects or leads in the case. In Seattle, Washington a homeless woman in a wheelchair was repeatedly raped as “payment” for a place to sleep. “I can rape you and get away with it…You’re homeless? No one cares about you,” the perpetrator reportedly claimed. To mention only a few of the incidents related in the report.

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Canine Aggression - the gloves come off - Lennox:

First warning: This is going to be a long one. Grab a drink and settle back-we have some talking to do.

From the beginning of my involvement with the Lennox case (which dates back almost a year to when Victoria Stilwell brought me in) I have stayed as neutral and professional as possible. I have resisted criticising the BCC and their evaluator, as we were trying to get me to Northern Ireland and get access to Lennox to give a fair, objective, and behaviorally sound evaluation. Sarah Fisher had done a great job, but I brought extensive "Pit Bull" experience coupled with unparalleled experience with "killer dogs" (dogs that have taken human lives). So I kept my opinion considered and low key, hoping that I could have come in as an "outside" expert, supplemented Victoria and Sarah's efforts, and gotten the BCC to listen. Now that Lennox is dead and the case is over, I no longer have to hold my tongue.

Let's look at the "qualifications" of the only evaluation that the BCC or Court accepted. The BCC "evaluator" is, admittedly, a former police Constable. So am I, except that instead of being a Constable, the equivalent here in the US to a base Patrolman, I retired as a Lieutenant and Watch Commander, the UK equivalent of a full Inspector with the Metropolitan Police. I am also a certified Behavior Consultant (he has no such training), have been certified as a Professional Dog Trainer, and am trained and certified as a behavior evaluator by several organizations-and he is not. 

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Canine Aggression

Retired Police Lieutenant (Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, Jacksonville, FL) former Animal Control Division Manager and professional dog trainer James W. Crosby has invaluable experience and extensive insight to bring to the problem of dog attacks and dangerous dog issues. Jim consults with Animal Control and Law Enforcement Authorities on serious and fatal dog attacks, combining crime scene investigation, detailed interviews and dog evaluation to give a detailed behavioral analysis of the incidents. Jim is the author of the upcoming "Working the Worst: A Guide to Investigating Dog Related Fatalities", to be released mid-2012. Contact by email at canineaggression@gmail.com or by phone 904-476-7655.

SB 1070 and Latinos in Solitary Confinement ~ a race card?

Latinos in Solitary Confinement ~ and extension of SB 1070?

Andy Ramirez,, the truth on border security and the BP DHS dilemna

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Man Alone - Severely Mentally Ill persons inside prisons

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Syria's 20 ways to torture

Rights group: Syria's 20 ways to torture prove its crimes against humanity

Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch commissioned a Syrian artist to produce sketches based on statements received from former detainees and security force defectors. They depict some of the most commonly used torture methods in detention centers across Syria. They are not representations of any specific individuals.

By msnbc.com staff and news services

Syrian intelligence agencies are running torture centers where detainees are beaten with batons and cables, burned with acid, sexually assaulted and their fingernails torn out, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday.
The New York-based rights group identified 27 detention centers across the country that it says intelligence agencies have been using since President Bashar Assad's government began a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in March 2011.

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Human Rights Watch documented more than 20 torture methods that "clearly point to a state policy of torture and ill-treatment and therefore constitute a crime against humanity."It conducted more than 200 interviews with people who said they were tortured, including a 31-year-old man who was detained in the Idlib area in June and made to undress.

 

 

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"Then they started squeezing my fingers with pliers. They put staples in my fingers, chest and ears. I was only allowed to take them out if I spoke. The staples in the ears were the most painful," the man told Human Rights Watch.

Human Rights Watch

Detainees described being beaten on the soles of their feet with sticks and whips to the point that their skin was raw, their feet swollen and bleeding, making it impossible to walk.

"They used two wires hooked up to a car battery to give me electric shocks. They used electric stun-guns on my genitals twice. I thought I would never see my family again. They tortured me like this three times over three days," he said.
Another man, named “Elias” in the report, described how he was tortured by Syrian intelligence officers in Damascus.
“The guards hung me by my wrists from the ceiling for eight days. After a few days of hanging, being denied sleep, it felt like my brain stopped working. I was imagining things,” he said.
“My feet got swollen on the third day. I felt pain that I have never felt in my entire life. It was excruciating. I screamed that I needed to go to a hospital, but the guards just laughed at me,” he added.
Women, children, elderly people
The report found that tens of thousands of people had been detained by the Department of Military Intelligence, the Political Security Directorate, the General Intelligence Directorate, and the Air Force Intelligence Directorate.
So many people have been arrested that the authorities had used sports stadiums, schools and hospitals as detention centers, the report said.

From the front line in what looks ever more like a fight for Syria's capital Damascus, members of the Free Syrian Army appear to be closing in on President Assad's stronghold, at a terrible cost to both sides. NBC's Bill Neely reports.

The report said while most of the torture victims who spoke to the group were men aged 18 to 35, they also spoke to a number of women, children and elderly people who had been tortured.
“Interrogators, guards, and officers used a broad range of torture methods, including prolonged beatings, often with objects such as batons and wires, holding the detainees in painful stress positions for prolonged periods of time, often with the use of specially devised equipment, the use of electricity, burning with car battery acid, sexual assault and humiliation, the pulling of fingernails, and mock execution,” the report said.
It added that several former detainees told Human Rights Watch that they witnessed people dying as a result of torture.
'Mildest form of torture'
A former Syrian intelligence officer told the campaign group that the “mildest form of torture is hitting people with batons” on their arms and legs and “not giving them anything to eat or drink.”
“They used … and electroshock machine … it is a small machine with two wires with clips that they attack to nipples and a knob that regulates the currents,” he said. “In addition, they put people in coffins and threatened to kill them and close the coffin.”

 

Syrian helicopters strike Damascus suburb
The group called for the U.N. Security Council to refer the issue of Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and to adopt targeted sanctions against officials carrying out abuse.
"The reach and inhumanity of this network of torture centers are truly horrific," Ole Solvang, emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch said. "Russia should not be holding its protective hand over the people who are responsible for this."
PhotoBlog: On the road with Syria's rebel motorcycle army
Russia -- an ally of Syria -- and China have already vetoed two council resolutions that condemned Damascus and threatened it with sanctions and French U.N. Ambassador Gerard Araud told reporters on Monday that reaching a Security Council consensus to refer Syria to the ICC would be difficult.
"As France is concerned it's very clear we are very much in favor of referring Syria to the ICC," Araud said.
"The problem is it will have to be part ... of a global understanding of the council and I do think that for the moment we have not yet reached this point," he said.
U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay on Monday reiterated her position that the issue of Syria's conflict should be referred to the ICC in The Hague because crimes against humanity and other war crimes may have been committed.
She said both sides appear to have committed war crimes.
The United Nations has said more than 10,000 people have been killed during the 16-month Syria conflict.
Reuters contributed to this report.

Brian Terry, An American Hero - Contribute to the Cause -

To the White House, Brian Terry Is Merely the Collateral Damage of a Failed Policy

To Us, He Was Family

United States Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry - our son, brother, uncle, cousin and friend - sacrificed his life to protect our country. But that apparently wasn't enough for the White House to remember his name.

In a statement to the press yesterday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney stumbled and fumbled his way through a defense of President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder's refusal to furnish documents related to Operation Fast and Furious, the ill-conceived gun-trafficking exercise orchestrated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the United States Department of Justice.

Then, Carney failed to remember the name of Brian Terry, the American hero who became a victim of the operation.

In response to a question posed by ABC's Jake Tapper at yesterday's press conference, Carney said, "We have provided Congress every document that pertains to the operation itself that is at issue here when you talk about the family that you referred to."

Tapper, who explicitly mentioned our family's name in his question, had to remind Carney - "the Terry family" - he interjected in the middle of Carney's response.

"The Terry family," Carney repeated, apparently having not paid enough attention to the Fast and Furious scandal and the resulting tragedy to remember our names.

Jay Carney, since you forgot about Brian Terry, let me remind you of who he was.
Brian Terry is a modern-day American hero who loved life and lived it to the fullest each and every day. Brian Terry was a well-trained and well-equipped U.S. Border Patrol Agent who knew his job was full of risk and danger, but performed his duty admirably in the face of that risk and danger. Brian Terry was part of the "tip of the spear" that protected our country's border. Brian Terry was confronted by Mexican drug cartel bandits armed with semiautomatic weapons supplied to them via Fast and Furious, a failed "gun-walking" operation orchestrated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the United States Department of Justice. Brian Terry died a tragic, needless death at the hands of the drug smuggle.

Help us remember Brian Terry - as well as the U.S. Border Patrol Agents who came before him and those who will come after him - by contributing to our cause so that we may carry out our mission.
The White House may have forgotten Brian Terry's name, but with your help, we'll create a living legacy that everyone else will remember.
In the loving and enduring memory of Brian A. Terry,

The Brian Terry Foundation

P.S. Brian Terry lost his life protecting this nation, and it is very disappointing that we are now faced with an administration that seems more concerned with protecting themselves rather than revealing the truth behind Operation Fast and Furious. Please,join the Brian Terry Foundation and sign our "Never Again Petition," calling for our nation's leadership tonever again repeat the mistakes that were made by the Justice Department in the conception and investigation of Fast and Furious.

This was received in my email sent to me by the Terry family... Please contribute to the cause