NewYorkjoe Wrote:I think serial killers have lost their humanity. It is our empathy for fellow human beings that makes us human. Sociopaths have none.
NYj
Tony H Wrote:There is not a long list of black serial killers. That could be because they don't get caught or perhaps the FBI profile insists they are white males in their mid to late thirties with mommy issues and a penchant for bed-wetting.
That is what happens when you build a profile for a specific criminal sect. You try to pigeonhole every serial killer into that specific profile. That does not mean that there are no active black serial killers, it just means they have not been captured, nor has the "profile" been update to reflect this accordingly.
There is a huge difference between serial killers and spree killers. Even gang-related drive-by shootings are considered a spree killing but because that act is, for the most part, confined to ghettos and out of sight of white America, it seldom makes the news.
The Navy Yard shooting was in a high profile area, so of course it got media coverage.
The woman who was shot and killed after attempting to run through a white house barricade got media coverage because of the target and the incident coming so soon on the heels of the Navy Yard shooting.
More importantly though, the people who comitted these crimes were suffering from major mental health issues. They could easily have been any race, as behavioral health issues are not race/class specific and can affect anyone. The man who cannibalized a homeless man was black, but when it was first reported everyone thought he was white. Same with the DC Snipers. Why?
The common denominator is not the race of the individual commiting the crime, it is the deterioration of their mental health. And it is not deteriorating because they are black or something in the black culture is in the midst of a paradigm shift, it deteriorated because sometimes it just happens to people, regardless of the color of their skin.
It happened because they are human.