Mu Perspectives
Mu Perspectives presents the ideas and personal writings of Mu Committee Members and Staff Writers in blog format. These essays do not represent the collective policies or positions of Mu, which are best summarized by our principles here, and elsewhere on our site.
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Mu Lowdown article by Dan Finkelstein.
50 million children. Left unattended with millions of males who pose well over 3-4x the normal risk for child sexual offending among men. It's the one thing we DIDN'T want to happen.
But every day, America's usually hyper-vigilant parents are willingly sending their kids to public schools, where these superpredators are lurking in the shadows.
The problem is hardly acknowledged, but numbers don't lie! Statistics have backed this up across multiple types of child sexual offending. Boys aged 12-17 are far more likely to offend against a child, and be prosecuted for it, than any other age group. In other words, more li...
Dan Finkelstein
I fully appreciate this might feel like boiling the ocean, or even asking the Free Palestine movement to get into bed with the Directors of Raytheon, but here I would like to raise the possibility of a MAP Law-Enforcement Collaboration. If anything, as a conversation starter.
The precedents have always been strong. B4U-ACT, a collaboration between MAPs and clinicians has been going for almost a quarter of a century, and even successfully obtained state funding during its formative years under the late MAP thought-leader, Michael Melsheimer. By playing the long game, and thinking outside the box, MAPs managed to foster an identity and genuine, o...