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Decade after decade, the church hid its sordid crimes, enabling the collared perpetrators instead of letting the police collar them.
True progress can never be achieved by separating the victims and the perpetrators; instead, we should concentrate our resources on eliminating persistent misogynist ideas.
The detectives were not even given tape recorders to record interviews with witnesses or perpetrators; instead they had to buy their own.
Some factors that contributed to the decline were increased use of bullet-resistant vests, availability of highly-trained SWAT teams that are used for especially dangerous situations, and use of stun guns that allow officers to keep a distance from perpetrators instead of hand-to-hand combat.
Too often, we either averted our eyes (after obligatory verbiage expressing pro forma outrage), or we focused on finding the specific perpetrators, instead of punishing nations that have actively succored terrorist groups or, more passively, let them train and operate within their borders.
Tim Paul, for example, did a great parody of the cover that points the finger at the male perpetrators instead.
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Green party politician Renate Künast got a lot of flak when she suggested that German police should have incapacitated the perpetrator instead of killing him.
The nonprofit organisation Stop Street Harassment has a host of suggestions for responding to street harassers, including the recommendation to name the behaviour and describe the harasser ("Man in the yellow shirt, stop touching me"), which places the usual shame and embarrassment felt by the victim on the perpetrator instead and gives bystanders an open opportunity to step in.
Each time she reported an incident, she said, the official response "was one of minimizing my experience and attempting to resolve the situation with a mere apology from the perpetrator instead of imposing more appropriate disciplinary action".
Externalities occur when the costs of some action are not borne by the perpetrators but instead fall on to others.
While the "why" question is irresistible, when case studies of murder-suicide perpetrators focus instead on identifying confirmable patterns of behavior, they are more likely to bear useful information.
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