It was popular in the media and polite conversation to pretend that murderers and rapists were marginal men, them and not us, but during that time a white man who was a bank vice president strangled a teenage sex worker in my suburban hometown not quite thirty miles north of San Francisco while his wife and daughters were at Girl Scout camp. It was the era of the Night Stalker and the middle-aged white man known as the Trailside Killer (who raped and killed women hikers on the trails I hiked on) and the Pillowcase Rapist and the Beauty Queen Killer and the Green River Killer and the Ski Mask
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Seriously. Folks on the extreme margins have high rates of crime committed against them; they also commit fewer crimes than the general population. It’s been like that for a long fucking time — too long to be ignorant about. People understand this — they don’t care, tho.
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