Brickbat: No Help at All

In Israel, former police officer Aviah Stamkar has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually assaulting three women he met through his work. The assaults took place after the women reached out to police for help. Stamkar must also pay financial compensation to the women.

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FFS Chuck, stop phoning this in. Source article:

The assaults took place while the women were dealing with personal problems and seeking help from the police, the announcement noted.

In two cases, Stamkar abused his authority during the women’s cases, and in the third, he reached out to the woman through his police role.

The sentence followed a plea agreement, which the victims accepted. The Police Investigations Division emphasized the seriousness of his actions, noting that Stamkar systematically took advantage of vulnerable women and used a fake identity to cover up his crimes.

You paraphrased that down to three sentences (to make it sound more rapey), made no effort to investigate anything further than literally what I just copy/pasted, and ignored the important parts.

This is bushleague. Like, Emma Camp bushleague.

Also:

for sexually assaulting

So, Israel has a different definition for this than America does. What America would differentiate as "sexual harassment," Israel just lumps straight into "sexual assault" (because they're based af).

But because Charlie here didn't do any actual work before collecting his paycheck on this 30-second 3-sentence "article," we have no idea what Israel is talking about when they say "convicted of sexually assaulting." And of course, Chaz made no effort whatsoever to find out.

But this is telling: "The sentence followed a plea agreement, which the victims accepted."

All three of them. Which doesn't smack of "sexual assault," as an American would consider the term. (A seven year sentence is pretty hardcore for whatever it was though, but again, Israel is based af.)

Doesn't make his conduct OK or defensible, whatever it may have been, but it does make this Brickbat highly misleading. As Chuckles' posts usually are.

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Doesn't make his conduct OK or defensible, whatever it may have been, but it does make this Brickbat highly misleading. As Chuckles' posts usually are.

Of note as I've frequently pointed out on this very point: This is terrible both/all ways because Reason writers, Chuck among them, are as likely to round off far greater crimes or affronts to libertarianism because they don't or haven't been simmered down to a/the "police [sexual] assault" narrative for Reason. Like summing up Snowden's CIA revelation as "Intelligence official misspeaks before Congress."

It's like a deliberate exercise in terrible and disinformative journalism.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Israel, you say?