Lacey made the announcement Thursday, adding that her office has not yet received any cases from law enforcement for criminal filing.
Friday, November 10, 2017
L.A. District Attorney Launches Sexual Abuse Task Force for Entertainment Industry
Lacey made the announcement Thursday, adding that her office has not yet received any cases from law enforcement for criminal filing.
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I read a really interesting article a few days ago about how the "me too" fad was one of the stupidest things that the entertainment industry ever allowed to happen to itself. It was a product of the entertainment industry but the entertainment industry has an enormous problem with sexual assault and abuse. I think the fact that there is this task force is great, because we have to stop just talking the talk and start proving that we can be the people that we ask our country to be. Part of this problem is dethroning the hundreds of men who sit at the top of the arts industry. The bottom of the arts industry is very diverse but the people who are making the big decisions are 9 times out of 10 white men, and this has to stop. We have stop giving these men access to so much power and so many helpless people because obviously they can not handle it. I was watching the Lady Gaga documentary last night and she is very candid about the way that men have treated her throughout her career, and she blames it on their access to anything they want. She says that the world gives them all this money and drugs and they expect that women will be the same. They expect that women fall into the same category as an expendable item. So along with changing the with the culture we have to change the way that men think of women. As more than objects that society owes them, and as actual human beings.
This article is brief but to the point. I understand why it is short but I still have a lot of problems with what is going on based on what Sharon Lacey is doing or saying she is doing. She says she put together a “task force of specially trained deputy district attorneys” but all she probably did was take, as she also mentions, people who were already doing this kind of work and with their experience and success in mind; decided to put them in a group that will deal with these cases. Will this task force actually do what task forces are supposed to do: go out and seek for information and crimes, etc.? They probably will not. This group of people is probably already backlogged with a major amount of work they need to do and they are more likely to wait for the problems to get to them because of this. Any help they need is also probably backlogged and will impede their process anyways. However, that is just one problem I have with it. The other is that she is only getting help from LAPD and Beverly Hills PD. The LAPD move is a smart move because it is the largest force that covers the most area in L.A. A very useful asset but what she really needs is the Burbank Police Department. The reason she really needs Burbank PD is because the city of Burbank in LA runs on its own with different restrictions and regulations for their police, their jurisdiction, etc. A large portion of the film industry is also in Burbank with sound stages and other necessary film related things. So, if she gets Burbank PD in on this then I can actually assume she is doing what she says she is doing. However, I won’t be surprised if she doesn’t either because then she was just doing what she needed to do. Burbank also isn’t the only thing she needs but it’s the right first step.
I am extremely unimpressed by the US justice system. It is hard on soft crimes like possession of marijuana and soft on hard crime like rape. There are so many ways the federal justice system could play this one. Some of these men are long time abusers and crossed state lines making it a federal case.
The fourth branch of government, aka the bureaucracy, is an interesting thing. Of course the DA can not do all that they want to do because that simply isn't how that works. We live in the wrong political time to expect the government to do anything about these allegations. The legality of everything is so incredible malleable when our "president" has been accused by 13 women, one of whom was a child.
On the plus side, I think this gives us a really good opportunity as a nation to stand against sexual violence on our own terms and begin our solutions at the root.
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