Even The Wolf likely can't clean up Harvey Weinstein's pending troubles

We did one for the City of Chicago because someone noticed that there were boxes and boxes of files at an Innocence Clinic with a detective's name on it. If the City would have just hired us to "look into policing," I don't even know where we would begin.

 

They may be the worst examples, but I don't think we can call them rare anymore.

Orthodox Jewish Communities and the Church of Scientology expressly discourage members from going to the police with reports of abuse.

Actresses in Hollywood who reported abuse, even quietly to others in the community, were blackballed.

Two NYPD cops are accused of raping a teen, in their custody, and the excuse is that it was consensual. Consensual sex, with a teen girl, in handcuffs, while on the job!

The NFL would have been happy to sweep the Ray Rice incident under the rug.

NFL teams all employ "security personnel" -- often former Secret Service or cops -- to be the first line of defense in covering up crimes committed by their players.

And, who would have ever believed the Michigan State story, until it was fully exposed?

Name your big time college football or basketball coach. You think the entire institution wouldn't kick into full gear to protect them, and the team, if put in a similar situation?

They already cover up recruiting violations, and bribes, but they wouldn't cover up sexual assault?

 

Schools have alumni lists. A questionnaire or survey, even if the returns were anonymous, could be enlightening -- especially if the returns were sent to an independent investigator, like a law firm, and not the school administrators.

At my own high school, some issues have come to light, years and years after they occurred.

If you let people feel like they are safe to talk about what happened, and let them know you are eager to know what happened, and to address it, people will talk. The problem is, no one has ever felt that way, specifically because they see how the system is set up. If they see that they will be attacked for coming forward, they just simply wont come forward.

 

Keep in mind I'm not really dinging you ... or anyone for that matter ... either.

 

Back when I was a doctoral student, one of my closest friends was a woman who, like me, was put in the classroom very early. She was married, but childless, at the time (she's since had a son and adopted another), and kind of nondescript physically.

Her first semester in the classroom, one of her dipshit students put on his (it had to be a guy) anonymous evaluation of her teaching that the best part of the course was "the sex." No higher-ups even looked at evaluations then, and she and I laughed it off. That's not the way it'd be handled today!

 

So what happened to Ansari Aziz and Katie Way?

 

Saucier than ever, apparently.

 

Deadspin perfected it in sports.

 

I'm a guy who likes Magary's wicked rants, but Deadspin and plenty of other sites ruin themselves with imitators.

 

I would. I did.

Frankly, it's not a case of "could," even if victim's advocates want to frame it that way. (I don't begrudge them that, either. They're just doing what they should do.) People "can" believe this stuff happens. They didn't because Larry Nassar was a doctor and he was really good and convincing at lying, and our criminal justice system has absolutely nothing for victims like this unless one of them is Rachael Denhollander, a brilliant woman who outsmarted him and fought until she convinced overworked, institutionally-cynical authorities to investigate.

 

Burneko.

 

Imitator? I'm not familiar.