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In Denver, five were pummeled to death and two more beheaded. In Richmond, Virginia, one was beaten, stabbed and beheaded, his h
In Denver, five were pummeled to death and two more beheaded. In Richmond, Virginia, one was beaten, stabbed and beheaded, his h
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In Denver, five were pummeled to death and two more beheaded. In Richmond, Virginia, one was beaten, stabbed and beheaded, his head then carried nearly a mile and placed for display on a footbridge. In Seattle, one was stabbed 18 times, another beaten bloody, then stabbed.
They were all homeless people killed over the last year. And these were just the killings that make the news. Exactly how many homeless people have been victims of savage attacks is unknown. Police departments do not tabulate crimes against homeless people, and in many cases, such as several beatings that have frightened the large homeless population in San Francisco, those who survive attacks often do not report them. In many cases, because many people on the streets are mentally ill or drug addicted or both, they are easier to victimize and harder to help, the police say, since they are often unable to describe the time and place of their attacks or their attackers. Surveys show that high school students often call the homeless bums and drunks who are too lazy to work. Even some officials would say these people don’t count.
What appears certain is that living on the streets is becoming more dangerous. In the last few years, police departments across the country have reported more frequent, more vicious attacks on those who are homeless. Nearly always, the victims are ambushed as they sleep. Nearly as often, the suspects, who are not always caught, are described as young men who appear to attack for no reason. In some cases, suspects call it "bum-bashing" or "troll-busting", police say.
Attacks against homeless people rarely get attention. But nationally, violence against people who are unsheltered is becoming so common that the Congress is asked to consider "homeless people" as a maligned minority, or protected class, in drafting any new legislation against hate crimes.
No one can say for sure why young people in particular seem to be attacking homeless people in increasing numbers. But looking at arrests in cases of violence against homeless people over several years, by far the majority of the suspects were young teenagers, or even pre-teenage boys, who bragged about the attacks afterward.
Officials believed that the homeless were singled out probably because they are accessible, anonymous and stigmatized as "throwaways of society". Many say crackdowns on homeless people for sitting, sleeping or lying in public spaces are a significant factor in the increased attacks. In Chicago, more of these kinds of attacks happened with increased "gentrification" of the city. The police often keep people off the streets where homeless people live. In doing so, we were obviously sending a message to our young people that homeless people are not worthy of their respect.
选项
A、Because they appeared on the media.
B、Because they are exceptionally cruel.
C、Because they happened in big cities.
D、Because they are all stabbed to death.
答案
A
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