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Cttocsjtemp
Posts: 2643
Incept: 2008-06-11
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http://blog.chron.com/houstonpolitics/20....Quote:
The Houston City Council has passed a $5-per-customer fee on strip clubs to raise money to reduce its backlog of******kits.
The vote was 14-1, with Councilwoman Helena Brown voting no.
“We have to do something to help the 4,000-plus women, children and men who have been sexually assaulted,” said Councilwoman Ellen Cohen, the author of the ordinance, which she modeled on a similar law she got passed as a state legislator. “I think we’ve waited long enough.” Cohen is the former CEO of an organization that runs a women’s shelter.
The city actually has more than 6,600 unprocessed kits containing swabs and other DNA evidence collected in cases of sexual assault. The backlog has existed for years as police have said they do not have the resources to process the evidence as fast as it comes in.
Councilman Oliver Pennington said he supported Cohen’s measure in the interest of the administration of justice. It could well be, Pennington said, that testing******evidence will exonerate the falsely accused as well as bring the guilty to justice. Representatives of the strip club industry spoke against the measure in part because they believe it unfairly links their businesses with sexual assaults. A study Cohen relies upon to make the link states: “Are sexually-oriented-businesses, alcohol, and the victimization and perpetration of sexual violence against women connected? An exhaustive review of the literature says yes.”
Several paragraphs later, though, the same study states: “However, no study has authoritatively linked alcohol, sexually-oriented-businesses, and the perpetration of sexual violence.”
Councilman C.O. Bradford also called the nexus into question. He said that according to Houston Police Department, apartment complexes are the most common location for sexual assaults, and that sexually oriented businesses are 10th.
Still, said Bradford, a former police chief: “Victims have waited too long.”
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It's gotten too big to hide behind the sofa pillow anymore. The ugly head is protruding and people are waking up from their sleep only to realize the nightmare is real.
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Avianphlu
Posts: 3920
Incept: 2008-12-03
Ulster NY
Online
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i want the job of lap dance monitor
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Jimpad
Posts: 1085
Incept: 2009-05-28
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SS exempt?
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Nomullet
Posts: 6821
Incept: 2007-11-11
SW
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How about a 10$ fee for not going in a strip club? Should hold up if it goes to the supreme court!
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Don't confuse clear thinking with simplistic thinking.
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Eighty6thebs
Posts: 4182
Incept: 2007-06-26
It's contained to sub-prime!
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Good thing their are no strip clubs lol....only gentlemens clubs and steak houses.
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Azusgm
Posts: 2396
Incept: 2010-12-02
East Texas
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DNA evidence processing at the crime lab in Houston has a long, sordid past. Cleaning up that mess has involved years, money, and review of evidence in cases involving criminal convictions. It took some award-winning investigative journalism to get movement on the problems. The same Clarence Bradford who cast his vote to impose a $5 "pole tax" although he questioned the relationship of strip club attendance with the crime of******was Houston police chief during the crime lab scandal. Quote:During his tenure as police chief, Mr Bradford was investigated for his involvement in the problems at the Houston Crime Lab. Because of contamination of evidence at the crime lab, a number of innocent people were jailed and spent years behind bars for crimes they did not commit as reported by the Houston Chronicle. The Houston Police Officers Union later admitted that Chief Bradford was aware of the contamination at the Houston Crime Lab for 5-years and chose not to act. Over 400 cases had to be retested to confirm their accuracy, including at least one death row case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Br....Houston City Council is a mess. Annise Parker's election as mayor served as confirmation to me that it was time to get away from there. BTW, when I moved from Houston a couple of years ago, KHOU was still turning out good investigative reporting. |
Dwedeking
Posts: 911
Incept: 2009-02-17
Keaau, HI
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Putting single moms out of work
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Looks like we're getting close to "CRUNCH" time.
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Infidel
Posts: 5463
Incept: 2007-08-27
between here and there
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"DNA evidence processing at the crime lab in Houston has a long, sordid past. Cleaning up that mess has involved years, money, and review of evidence in cases involving criminal convictions"
dateline 2012 "The city actually has more than 6,600 unprocessed kits containing swabs and other DNA evidence collected in cases of sexual assault. The backlog has existed for years as police have said they do not have the resources to process the evidence as fast as it comes in"
so after years and money, but mostly money, well, and years of course, or just ****ing years of money, remind us what exactley have they cleaned up?
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