Dear Sergeant Eld,
I write this letter to you because you were identified as the spokesperson for the Orlando Police Department in a story on false rape accusations that recently ran on NBC Channel Two in Orlando, both in their television broadcast and on their website.
There were some statements attributed to you by the station that raise some questions that I think need to be posed, given the gravity of the subject at hand.
You were quoted as saying, “We want victims to continue to report crime. We don’t want to spend endless hours and resources chasing ghosts.”
You added to that comment by saying, “False reports take personnel away from other calls for service, increasing the response time for real victims,” and that, “It also taints the jury pool in Orange county for true legitimate rape cases.”
Finally, you were quoted as saying, “False reports cause unnecessary fear in the community.”
With all respect to the dangerous and often thankless work done by police everywhere, and with great appreciation for your public call to address this problem, isn’t there something else that these false reports cause?
Like the lives of men devastated, their reputations and well being destroyed? Like innocent men behind bars?
I found it troubling that it appears you did not mention this, especially given the reality that so many men have ended up in prison, falsely convicted and paying an egregious price for lies that have been all too often carried to the courts by police that are either poorly trained, overly chivalrous or under skilled at what they are paid to do. I say that because something else that sheds light on these tragedies was also mentioned by Channel Two, but for some reason was not quoted from you or another direct source. The story said, “Cops said they don’t want to arrest the women, but feel they must.”
I found this to be a staggering statement, and quite telling.
I thought it was the duty of the police to arrest criminals, regardless of their sex? In fact, I am pretty sure that is true.
Why would your officers not want to arrest criminals that are causing such pervasive and destructive problems? Because they are girls?
Are the officers on your force confusing their squad cars with white horses, or has it been a matter of routine policy in the past to give women who make false allegations a pass on their crime?
Since the problem itself has grown to such proportions that the police department has to make public proclamations about its severity, it would seem safe to conclude that police inaction on false allegations has been a systemic problem all along.
What percentage of false accusers have been arrested and criminally prosecuted in Orlando in the past 10 years? The answer to that question will either exonerate the police department (and the D.A.’s office) or prove my point entirely.
Being a professional in law enforcement, I am sure you are aware of The Innocence Project. Are you aware that the crime for which most of their beneficiaries are proven to be innocent is rape?
I am also sure you are aware of how convicted sexual offenders are treated in prison, and the unspeakable things that can happen to them there.
Does this not make the veracity of allegations of critical importance in the criminal justice system, in which you play such a vital role?
But now we hear, from you, that those untruthful allegations are a problem because they cause an undue workload on police officers? Because people in the community get scared?
We will never know, Sergeant Eld, just how many men are languishing in prisons right now because a woman had consensual sex with them and later regretted it, or because, as we saw in the Hofstra case, a woman wanted to cover herself with her boyfriend- and because those types of claims are often treated by police as factual with no evidence. It is, just as the story said, an epidemic problem, and clearly not just with the women making the allegations.
Those men in the Hofstra case were saved by a video taken on a camera phone, but there have been many, many men not near so lucky.
Perhaps you should consider that it is not the public at large, or the average police officer, or even the unfortunate victim of a real rape that pays the price for false allegations. It is innocent men- men who have done nothing wrong, that bear the brunt of these easily accepted and usually unpunished lies, in the most horrific way possible.
Kind Regards,
Paul Elam
Editor-in-Chief
mennewsdaily.com
Tags: Criminal Justice, Culture, False Accusation, False Accusations, Men's Issues, Men's News Daily, Men's Rights, Miscellaneous
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ThoughtCriminal:
Paul Elam:
Jared White:
4thtroika:
Rad:
Nothing is as bad as a woman being raped with no ability to prevent it.
…except being a man, doing nothing wrong, and finding your life completely destroyed – by a woman that falsely accuses him.
That’s an excellent public smackdown of a beta male enforcer.
It’s disgusting how jailhouse rape is practically ignored and accepted as a natural consequence of incarceration. A potential death penalty for false accusations.
Bravo, Paul. You said most eloquently and forthrightly exactly that which needed to be said. Again, BRAVO!
Nice, wonder when he’ll get around to a response? sic!
Excellent Paul, I frankly don’t understand how these cops can have so little empathy for men falsely accused of rape and the consequences they face, unless it really is some kind of orchestrated attack on the rights and human dignity of everyday men. Even chivalry,(as much as I despise it), doesn’t have to exclude empathy for men falsely charged, so this viciousness on the part of police and the court system must all be intentional.
This is the proactive activism that we need to start doing a lot more of. Less talking, more walking. If that letter gets one cop over there to investigate the MRM, even if all it creates is awareness, then it is a huge success. In fact, law enforcement is one of the primary groups of men we should be targeting, along with men in the education system.
Great work.
In regards to your earlier post about jury nullification, it seem Socon female ass-kissing mangina extraordinaire got his panties in a wad, and ran tattling to Laura Wood’s (who imagines herself ”The Thinking Housewife”, and she has posted her remarks in furtherance of her stand that there should be no organized Men’s Rights Movement here:
Idiocy and Hatred in the Men’s Rights Movement
Now, while I disagree in principle with blind jury nullification, I still believe the subject is worth discussing – even if only so that the possibility is made known so that those (like the social conservative gyno-centrists) who remain entirely dismissive of most of the biggest misandric injustice suffered by (almost exclusively) men, might be better able to see that ignoring the growing problem IS likely to result in extreme counter-measures.
But, rather that take a serious look at the core issue, Wood’s simply attacks your proposed response. Of course, from what I’ve seen, her standard approach is to acknowledge a male-oriented problem exists, then act as though she done men some great service by simply have made such acknowledgement – so now, men can shut up about it, and go back to their proper role of serving their wives and making them happy.
What she seems to NOT understand is that it is such flippant dismissals of the issues critical to men that give rise to more radical ideas like yours in response. If these so-call Christian conservatives truly wished to protect men from the deleterious effects of radical gender-feminism (as they so often claim they wish to do), then they would rise in support of the issue that really concern men, and propose solutions that they deem reasonable.
Their refusal to do so is effectively their way of saying to men: “If you aren’t with OUR program of being dutiful husbands to women, then we could careless about you”. And, they don’t “get it” why more men aren’t signing up.
Thanks Jabs!
@ slwerner
Yeah, I saw her pingback on the story this morning. Women like that are every bit as bad as feminists. The only difference is that feminists want all of men’s blood and sweat to be shared equally among women. The Thinking Housewife wants women to compete to own a man of their own.
If it walks like a hoah…
Amen, brother.
Did’ya get that, Sergent Eld?? How ’bout the rest of you coppers? All it takes nowadays is one tiny little lie to effectively destroy a man’s reputation, career, marriage, freedom and life. So pay the F*** attention please. THANK YOU. Now, have a doughnut on me. My way of saying thanks. Thanks for defending me when wicked citizens attack. Thanks for understanding many of those wicked citizens have tits and vaginas. ‘Nuff said, ya big palookas. Palookas meaning in this case, easily defeated by female deception.
Nice job, Paul. I hope you sent it to the gentleman in question as well as posting it here.
Let’s face it, no matter what men say we come off sounding like inept pussies just for talking about these issues. A “real man” wouldn’t waste valuable money or time on this shit, he’d take over the town and kick ass and beat the fuck out of any bitch who questioned his authority. That’s how shit gets done, am I right?
Thanks. Peggy. I did indeed send it to his attention at the email address provided by the Orlando, PD. It also went to the front page at MND.
@ Trucker
To the first part of your post I totally agree. There is ongoing pressure to keep men silent about these issues, much of it exerted by other men. As to the second part, I am not sure exactly what you mean.
No Trucker, that’s not how shit gets done. Men need to form alliances and raise awareness of the systematic discrimination.
Traditional definitions of a “real man” would mean that men would accept their place as second class citizens and continue to put women on a pedestal.
I took women off of pedestals long ago. The trouble is a lot of them think they should be on one but will deny it vehemently.
@ trucker
I’m not so sure that boat floats here either. Women are free to question anything they want. I’m free to laugh in their faces. No beat down necessary, physically anyway.
The white horse analogy is genius. I think Jezebel.com, or even feministing.com might publish this. Definitley worth sending it. And therightsofman.typepad.co.uk, and Angry Harry too, as the UK is in the middle of a false rape anonymity debate.
(Police cars are white in most territories, so go for it!)
@ Tom,
I am working on a much more detailed version of this, and I will be sending it out. Thanks.
There was a girl in my high school that gave her boyfriend a blowjob in a movie theater… Then when she broke up with him (for another guy). she said he raped her and made her give him a blowjob in the theater. He went to juvy.
@Liberata
WHAT A FUCKING BITCH!!!! [portion of comment removed]
@ Peter
DO NOT advocate or condone violence of any kind on this website. First and last warning.
@tom of covent garden:
“The white horse analogy is genius. I think Jezebel.com, or even feministing.com might publish this.”
Sorry – can you explain this?
Are you saying that either of those two sites are going to publish something that Paul Elam wrote?
It is about damn time the news speaks out on this.
Feminism has created a society of fear against men.
They are training little girls to become feminists and fear their own father.
I hope many are learning that there are men being wrongly accused by women.
Ya when my second girlfriend broke up with me (i caught her cheating and she confessed to having five others) she tried to pretend i got her pregnant. The baby came out black thank god. It must have been one of the other guys. I am very judgemental now and its working very well
Excellent letter, Paul.