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Who Could Have Prevented the Murder of Jill Meagher? (Hint: Not Jill Meagher)
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This weekend, authorities in Australia announced they'd recovered the body of 29-year-old Irish expat Jill Meagher after the woman disappeared while walking home from a bar blocks away from her suburban Melbourne apartment. As the case captivated and horrified the country, more details emerged. Turns out,the man who has been arrested for Meagher's rape and murder wasn't a stranger to women along the busy strip of road from which the woman disappeared. He'd been creeping women out for months, and in at least one incident,threatened to strangle one of Meagher's neighbors. So why was nothing done? Because the police, once again,did not take threats of violence against women seriously.
Meagher seemed to vanish into thin air from a busy strip of road during the early morning hours of September 22nd, and authorities were stymied until Closed Circuit TV cameras from a clothing store caught footage of a hoodie-wearing blonde man pacing back and forth in front of the store and engaging Meagher in conversation. Buses, a tram, and several passersby would have seen the man, or Meagher, but none of them have spoken to police. The last footage of Meagher alive is the woman taking her cellphone out of her purse and making a call, ostensibly to disengage from the man in the hoodie.
During the ensuing search for her, authorities and the media weighed in on how what happened to Meagher could have been prevented. She shouldn't have been walking home alone from a bar! (Because the number one cause of getting murdered is walking home from a bar without a chaperone at night!) The country needs more Closed Circuit TV's! Why didn't her coworkers who were still out drinking insist on accompanying her to her doorstep?!
But the reason Meagher was killed wasn't that she was walking home alone or that there weren't enough cameras recording her every move; it was pure police incompetence and an unwillingness to take other women's reports of feeling threatened seriously.
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This weekend, authorities in Australia announced they'd recovered the body of 29-year-old Irish expat Jill Meagher after the woman disappeared while walking home from a bar blocks away from her suburban Melbourne apartment. As the case captivated and horrified the country, more details emerged. Turns out,the man who has been arrested for Meagher's rape and murder wasn't a stranger to women along the busy strip of road from which the woman disappeared. He'd been creeping women out for months, and in at least one incident,threatened to strangle one of Meagher's neighbors. So why was nothing done? Because the police, once again,did not take threats of violence against women seriously.
Meagher seemed to vanish into thin air from a busy strip of road during the early morning hours of September 22nd, and authorities were stymied until Closed Circuit TV cameras from a clothing store caught footage of a hoodie-wearing blonde man pacing back and forth in front of the store and engaging Meagher in conversation. Buses, a tram, and several passersby would have seen the man, or Meagher, but none of them have spoken to police. The last footage of Meagher alive is the woman taking her cellphone out of her purse and making a call, ostensibly to disengage from the man in the hoodie.
During the ensuing search for her, authorities and the media weighed in on how what happened to Meagher could have been prevented. She shouldn't have been walking home alone from a bar! (Because the number one cause of getting murdered is walking home from a bar without a chaperone at night!) The country needs more Closed Circuit TV's! Why didn't her coworkers who were still out drinking insist on accompanying her to her doorstep?!
But the reason Meagher was killed wasn't that she was walking home alone or that there weren't enough cameras recording her every move; it was pure police incompetence and an unwillingness to take other women's reports of feeling threatened seriously.
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Ah no, men masturbating in public? That never happens! (Oh yes, it does. But that's the response that meets women so often. Dismissive, mocking responses from men. Just what the patriarchy ordered.)
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