Alleged Green Line groper arrested
By adamg - Sat, 12/08/2007 - 5:39pm.
And, yes, it's the guy in the photo. Jeffrey Berman, 60, of Newton, admitted groping a girl at a T stop, Channel 4 reports.
The groper had been going after high-school girls on the E line for several months, groping them and exposing himself to them, MBTA police said earlier this week. They handed out fliers with a photo of him taken by a Boston Latin School junior who said she'd been attacked by him.
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Community policing may never be the same!
I'm really glad to read about this. Let it be a lesson to other subway gropers.
Way 2 Holla Back!
There has been an (underground?) movement in NYC for some time, where women have been yelling back at men who "rate" them loudly as they walk by, photographing pervs in the subway and street when they violate personal space boundaries, etc.
Good to see it pay off here. The guy even turned himself in, which indicates that he was a little concerned about going out and becoming a target of violence, perhaps?
Boston, too
HollaBackBoston, although it hasn't been updated since October.
With a comb over like that
With a comb over like that he should be arrested.
Great news!
This is the best use of a camera phone yet! I am thrilled he was arrested. I just feel awful for the girls this lowlife victimized.
I've also read about...
...a perv rolling up to some kid offering him "a ride" and the kid whips out his camera phone. As soon as he starts snapping pictures, the guy takes off. I don't remember if the offender was caught, but I think he was.
People like my mom always criticize new technologies as kind of excessive "Why would anyone need a camera on a phone? That's stupid." The genius is not the fact that the phone has a camera, but how we use the camera phone.
On the other hand, I've seen a lot of pervs using their camera phones to take pictures of women on the T. Those who live by the sword...
The thing is, Tblade,
is that such technologies do have the strong potential for abuse, which, in many cases, has happened. To digress a bit from the subject at hand, the use of the taser by police is a rather horrific example of that. I can see where your mom has some concerns, which are legitimate.
The picture-taking, especially by phone, really is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it's often abused in some form or other, and, on the other hand, it's proven useful, as it was in getting the MBTA groper arrested.
To digress even further from
To digress even further from the original topic, the taser was introduced as a response to the public's demand for non-lethal methods of stopping bad people (no more guns). The taser was also a replacement for the billy club and baton which caused visible injury that created such a bad image for the police (police brutality). Maybe because the taser was originally described as non-lethal, the taser has been used more often and with less provocation than the billy club or gun.
It was the public that wanted non-lethal weapons like the taser.
Anyway, back to the drawing board and the original topic.
the people also want the
the people also want the police to have cars, but that isn't license to wantonly cruise around at 100 mph and ignore traffic rules
for every perv that is
for every perv that is caught by a cameraphone there are probably 100 that use one to take photos up girl's skirts in public
Well.....
Glad that the groper was arrested. Justice was served.