They are finding decomposed bodies in the Cleveland home of  Anthony Sowell,  eleven lat last count. Police had visited the house before the discovery and noticed the smell, but never followed up, even though they knew the owner was a violent sex offender. No ethics controversies so far: the police were obviously careless and incompetent, and Sowell was, well, a serial killer. There are no ethical serial killers.

The ethics issue that screams to me in this story, however, is all about the women: all missing for months or years, all young, from poor families, and  black. Did you see any national media stories about them when they were missing persons and not abused corpses? I didn’t. Continue reading →