Showdown With The Pinkertons

“…Jim told me something I hadn’t quite grasped: the anonymous reporting culture is a growing

business, now deeply entrenched in the United States, a result of the victimization movement

and lawsuit epidemic rampant for nearly a generation. Encouraged by federal and local

governments, and many corporate and educational institutions, hotlines operate all over the

country to report date rape, sexual harassment, abuse, and other forms of brutality and

insensitivity. Since so many institutions in the United States are now presumed to be

unresponsive to the needs of one group or another, privately-administered anonymous

reporting hotlines are spreading. Pinkerton itself runs more than 800 such lines. It was

inevitable, said Jim, that they would move into schools…”