That has to have been the mindset behind allowing these two to wear ankle bracelets after they had already cut them off once before.   All the victims appear to be prostitutes…and that is why the rapists can get away with it for so long, a la green river killer.

“I picked prostitutes as my victims because I hate most prostitutes and I did not want to pay them for sex,” Ridgway said in his confessional statement. “I also picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up without being noticed. I knew they would not be reported missing right away and might never be reported missing. I picked prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught.”

At least one-third of Ridgway’s female victims were girls and women of color, and the vast majority were under the age of 22. Ridgway, an extreme incarnation of a brutal misogynist, considered killing female prostitutes a “career.” He felt proud of what he did, and thought he was damn good at it.

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It is outrageous that the police still treat these women as sub-human…probably even think they deserve what they get.

As the report explores…would Ridgway (Cano/Gordon/others) been able to get away with this if their victims were of a different class?  Would Ridgway and the rest have raped these women if they saw them as human beings–probably sexually abused as children..?

But it’s not just prostitutes that get raped and beaten…we’ve got a problem in this culture with still seeing women as second class.  We have a culture that embraces rape and violence against women….and the vulnerable….as I said before, we are all vulnerable at some point in our lives…

When do we stop it?  When do we stop applauding the promotion of misogyny and rape?