You’ve identified one of the primary failures of the courts. As the number of victims raises the punishment for each victim decreases in our judicial system. Victim count is an aggravating factor and should be a multiple when calculating punishment. Instead we have a system that pretends to grant justice but is an actuality a tool of injustice and repression wielded by people whose entire perspective can be effectively reduced to might makes right. Despite our toys and complicated rhetoric we’re still just violent animals holding those with the least autonomy the most accountable and those with the most autonomy can escape the consequences of their violence indefinitely. A mass revolt or protest of the judicial system in the next generation would not surprise me in the least.
>I really do wonder if it’s cultural or some kind of innate psychological irrarionality that seems stronger in some than others.
CPS is a human organization. There are no algorithms and the guidelines rarely perfectly fit the situation a case worker is given. Keep this in mind. CPS is horrifically under funded meaning that intelligent and competent staff readily leave the field for better paying gigs.
The biggest problem I see with foster care at large is the rampant classism, sexism, racism, and other isms. The providers tend to be solidly middle class degree bearing people who have no personal connection to primary instigating factors of foster care involvement. Namely and typically presenting cross generationally: poverty, crimes of despair or desperation, and trauma whether that be internal or external to the family unit or community such as neighborhood violence, caregiver assault, or tragic loss.
It easy for providers to casually profile incoming children and their families as poor uneducated violent predacious drug dealing junkies. Providers are given extreme control over the entire family and their extended relations and use this power to coerce whatever behavior they desire out of the people. If the provider dislikes the family they have a lot of tools to inflict suffering on them and oppositely they have a lot of tools to assist families and keep them together.
Honestly, the entire system is such a god damn mess that it should be rebuilt with the same level of distrust of staff that they can exercise against families.
Perhaps the most pressing single metric to focus may be the foster to prison pipeline.
Sorry for the meandering post, bookcases could be filled with anecdotes and descriptions of the flaws in these systems. In general, I think the failure of child protection agencies reflects the decay in America at large. I could point to stuff like broken family units or loss of religions community but I’m not dog whistling here. Stable healthy nurturing familial units of any relation are obviously better but man in the house rules and other racist/classist measures caused more harm. I’m also vehemently opposed to all major organized religions that are regularly used to justify war and protect child sex predators. Perhaps the collapse of American industry and slow erosion of social safety nets has hastened the social collapse. Perhaps the internet had instigated the collapse of communal organizations. Perhaps winner take all government enforced monopoly capitalism is the cause. Perhaps it was the theft of 50,000,000,000.00 from the bottom 99 by the 1% that lead to this. Regardless, the solution is not going to be found in rebuilding foster care when our social fabric is rotten.
Key point: argue in good faith. It’s nearly incontrovertibly clear that you’re not participating with respect to the site guidelines but instead are trolling.
That’s your best example yet. Amusingly, it misses the mark of actually naming a billionaire in even a loose sense. the person isn’t identified, the actual amount paid is unstated, and they’re not actually a billionaire. What a waste of time.
Care to share an original thought buddy? I’m growing weary of your shallow, bad faith, and off topic comments.
>a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices (originally with reference to prominent US businessmen in the late 19th century).
Deriving profit from unethical behavior of others is as bad as doing it yourself, but all of these people act like shit pretty regularly, despite their professional reputation managers, handlers, security, and legal teams begging them to behave.
Have you heard of child slavery? Jordan and lebron support that by putting their name on athletic wear.
Have you seen Jay zs or dres rap sheet and allegations? You want guys like that to have billions to use unchecked? Seriously? You want poor kids looking up to gang bangers with violent crime records as an example of what is acceptable? It’s not like these people have redemption arcs, naw, just more of the same with their vast wealth paving over their misbehavior. Same as every other billionaire.
Have you seen ye’s meltdowns? Dude has too much damn money.
Did you read Perry’s wiki? Union busting is a classic. I’d dig for more but that’s enough in my book. He’s pulling up the ladder and exerting his power because he can.
Oprah? Have you even watched her show? Seen the shit she spouts under the color of science?
Give me a break and get better examples. Perhaps the best example, who you didn’t mention, is Notch, but selling to Microsoft is tacit approval and support of their operations. They’re all robber barons.
I fully support these people. The meat grinder he has created is not worth the slight convenience afforded by Amazon. Bezos will be considered a robber baron by historians, rightfully so.