It’s almost June which means dammit I need a new job. My lease is up in a couple months and I want to be able to live on my own. I would really like the research job but I’m open to other possibilities. The one thing I won’t do is start applying for every job out there, that’s how I get stuck in this job.
No good crazy stories from work lately. My clients must just be keeping it all bottled in. I did have a woman ask me if I can give her the phone number to a counselor she saw years ago. His name is Dave and he’s in NYC. No, she didn’t have other details.
While bored at work, I came across an article, Study: 23% of vets in prison are sex offenders
A read a few different versions of the article and they all contained the same line. “Federal researchers cannot say why.” Can’t? Or won’t? It’s one thing for people to think that soldiers are killers and rapists. It’s another thing for studies to actually agree that they are rapists. Maybe you want to look into that a little? I probably sound like I should be wearing a tinfoil hat but I don’t think this study’s results will be investigated further. I looked at a bunch of different articles and they are all almost the exact same wording. That’s odd for an article that appears over 25 times in Google news.
I looked at the original report and here’s some more interesting stats:
25% of vet’s victims were related, 11% of non-vets were relatives. Relatives do not include spouses, boyfriends/girlfriends or ex’s. Those people are included under “intimate” which is just 2% higher victim rate for vets. So who are they assaulting if not SO’s? Well, this might lead you to an answer. 20% of vet’s victims were 12 and younger (10% non-vet), 20% were ages 13-17 (14% non-vet, not terribly significant).
Other random significant stats: incarcerated vets had a much higher divorce rate but possibly partially due to about 10 year higher median age.
I won’t even go into the mental illness rates for vets. Let people who flipped out about VA Tech shooting go into gun laws and mental illness.