so much for profilers - Suspected serial killer arrested as attempts to leave for Israel..

[HipChick]

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/08/suspected_serial_killer_arrest.html

Washington -- A man suspected in a series of stabbings in Virginia, Michigan and Ohio was arrested at the Atlanta airport as he tried to board a plane bound for Israel.

A spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the agency's officers arrested the man about 10 p.m. Wednesday night at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, as he attempted to board a Delta flight for Tel Aviv. The suspect was handed over to the FBI and Atlanta police

serial killing of black males is not a top priority..

http://www.thegrio.com/opinion/serial-killer-targeting-black-men-is-not-a-top-priority.php

[Windy]

1. Could still be a fundamentalist christian right winger...

no matter what he is, I hope they have caught the right man and have succeeded in getting him off of the street.

[slampoet]

2. The Flint Journal reported the suspect's name is Elias Abuelazam, 33.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38671977/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?GT1=43001

[Warpy]

3. Media racism isn't the story here.

A more balanced story is at http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/24567019/detail.html

Cop shops, never lavishly funded, have been slashed to the bone and beyond, especially in depressed areas like Michigan. It's taking them longer to put stuff like this together, to go from a serial killer in one town to a serial killer with a larger territory.

They also don't want to go public with the information they have, especially the physical description, because they don't want the bastard to change his appearance or methods to throw them off his trail.

Yes, racism plays a massive part in how much attention any story gets, but it's often not the whole story.

[slampoet]

4. Read the local Michigan Media on this story and you'll see it is getting top coverage.

I really wouldn't take an OP ED piece from people who don't live in one of the affected areas over a good search of the Detroit Free Press' sites.

http://m.freep.com/find.jsp?term=Flint+serial+stabbings

A LOT of articles HERE

http://www.freep.com/
Front page news with photo, scooping CNN!!!

http://www.freep.com/article/20100812/NEWS06/100812003/1321/Man-held-in-Flint-serial-stabbings

A LOT of liberals tend to miss the coverage of the Detroit Free Press one of the better liberal papers in the nation simply because the Free Press has the misfortune to have the web address www.freep.com

So unfortunately a LOT of liberals are afraid to click on the links.

[HipChick]

5. I was thinking more in terms of those 'FBI' professional profilers

that pop up on news shows profiling the character/personality of the suspect..