There is a report in the UK - generally known as the rape study - that reports on an incredible degree of similarities between the most evil of crimes in the UK over the past fifty years.

We tend to think of such crimes as being one-offs, an evil person commits an awful crime, another evil person commits another awful crime - there's no real connection between them. - John F. Di Leo

• But what if there is? 

What if there are patterns of behavior showing that perpetrators are linked, even protected, by community powers and by police and a justice system that would rather allow the crimes to continue than be found politically incorrect by calling it out publicly?

• And what if it's happening here in the United States, maybe even in greater numbers than in the UK?

See today's piece in AT by Monty Donohew.