{"id":1191,"date":"2011-11-09T22:49:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T22:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2020-09-28T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T17:00:41","slug":"same-ol-same-ol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/09\/same-ol-same-ol\/","title":{"rendered":"Same Ol&#039; Same Ol&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>Caveat<\/em>: Innocent until proven guilty, blah, blah, blah&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Anytime someone is accused of a serious crime or egregious misbehavior that spans a number of years, even decades, the question is always the same: How could they possibly have gotten away with it? How could anyone <em>not<\/em> see it? And <em>not<\/em> report it? Followed, in far too many cases, with some variation of &#8220;blame the victim.&#8221;<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know all the details of the two <a title=\"Jerry Sandusky\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/06\/sports\/ncaafootball\/former-coach-at-penn-state-is-charged-with-abuse.html?pagewanted=all\">prominent<\/a> <a title=\"Herman Cain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1011\/67194.html\">cases<\/a> currently dominating the headlines, so I&#8217;ll stick with what I do know. How Robert Hansen got away with murder for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Have friends in high places<\/strong>: Hansen was &#8220;good&#8221; friends with several prominent community members. He was &#8220;one of them;&#8221; they were always there to vouch for him; their mere presence was sometimes &#8220;enough.&#8221; Friends like this will tend to look the other way. They certainly know <em>they<\/em> wouldn&#8217;t do anything like this. Why would one of their friends?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Have a spouse (preferably church going) and kids<\/strong>: Hansen&#8217;s family helped make him look like a normal member of the community and, thus, avoid suspicion to a greater degree than might otherwise be possible.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pick victims whose status is lower than yours<\/strong>: In Hansen&#8217;s case, having victims who were prostitutes or dancers set up the perfect contrast &#8212; upstanding family man versus sketchy dancers and hookers. You can substitute children or employees here, if you like.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Be a business person<\/strong>: Hansen ran his own business, so that made him an entrepreneur. American&#8217;s tend to accord more status to a person who runs a business as opposed to someone who merely works for someone else. This helps maximize the inequalities, and thus the believability ratio, between perpetrator and victim. You can substitute someone with a winning record here, if you like. American&#8217;s love a winner almost as much as we hate a loser.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Be a male<\/strong>: It&#8217;s easier to achieve the first four conditions if you are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there you have it. Four simple rules and one accident of biology. If you follow them to the letter, you stand a good chance of getting away with egregious or criminal behavior for a decade or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Caveat: Innocent until proven guilty, blah, blah, blah&#8230;] Anytime someone is accused of a serious crime or egregious misbehavior that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,31],"tags":[142,251,260,331,406,461,553],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butcher-baker","category-true-crime","tag-butcher-baker-2","tag-frozen-ground","tag-getting-away-with-murder","tag-john-cusack","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-robert-hansen","tag-true-crime-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Same Ol&#039; 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