How to make the neighbourhood safer.
May. 20th, 2011 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_luckOr rather: how to start a panic:
Post a link on facebook to an article about a protest against a child molester moving to the neighbourhood.
Watch the news spread online and in real life.
I was told about this at the playground with my informant proudly mentioning that she, too, posted it on facebook.
She got most of the details right from the article that I found in one of our regional tabloids: Someone accused of child molestation in a neighbouring town was first put on remand and then set free apparently because of a procedural error. The trial is to continue in the next days. He's moved to one of the streets around here and neighbours have started a protest.
I don't want to start pointing to the principle of presumption of innocence because that usually goes out of the window when people panic about the well-being of their kids and the newspaper article certainly didn't presume any innocence.
This happened in September 2009.
My research method: I searched "youropenbook.org" for my neighbourhood, found a mention of the article, searched it on the newspaper's website, realized that the mention of the funfair 'this weekend' was a bit odd because it was two weeks ago and then looked at the date.
Post a link on facebook to an article about a protest against a child molester moving to the neighbourhood.
Watch the news spread online and in real life.
I was told about this at the playground with my informant proudly mentioning that she, too, posted it on facebook.
She got most of the details right from the article that I found in one of our regional tabloids: Someone accused of child molestation in a neighbouring town was first put on remand and then set free apparently because of a procedural error. The trial is to continue in the next days. He's moved to one of the streets around here and neighbours have started a protest.
I don't want to start pointing to the principle of presumption of innocence because that usually goes out of the window when people panic about the well-being of their kids and the newspaper article certainly didn't presume any innocence.
This happened in September 2009.
My research method: I searched "youropenbook.org" for my neighbourhood, found a mention of the article, searched it on the newspaper's website, realized that the mention of the funfair 'this weekend' was a bit odd because it was two weeks ago and then looked at the date.
