© Evelyn HockstienA man camp outside of Watford City, North Dakota
Former Rosebud Sioux Tribe Police Chief Grace Her Many Horses took a temporary job working in the Bakken Region near Newtown, North Dakota. This Bakken Basin stretches from Montana to North Dakota and it is rich in shale oil supplies. She began work in June of last year until October of the same year. It was her first experience with Man Camps. She seen them before while driving past on the way to pow-wows but this was going to be the very first time she would enter the premises and work the area as a law enforcement officer. This seasoned professional would be in for a rude surprise.
"When I first got there some of the things they talked about, in any of these areas, was they told the men 'Don't go out and party. Don't get drunk and pass out. Because you're going to get raped," she said without hesitation.
It's not exactly something you would expect to hear from a workers' camp but these places are not exactly your ordinary laborers' camps.
The depth of depravity and dubious behavior are commonplace in these so-called Man Camps. No one will say that all of the inhabitants are criminal but there is definitely an element there that has rocked the local law enforcement officials to the very core of their morals and value systems.There are identifiable variables that remain constant: These oil workers usually come from desperate conditions. These workers usually have a family they have left elsewhere so they are not looking to start new relations. These workers are paid an excessive amount of money. These workers are well aware their employment is only temporary. These workers know they are living in a remote environment where law enforcement is already stretched beyond its limits and the temptation for criminal behavior is very strong. Unfortunately, most of America still cannot comprehend this information.
"Sexual assaults on the male population has increased by 75% in that area," she continued. That kind of statistic makes maximum security prisons look like the minor league. "One of the things we ran into while working up there was a 15 year old boy had gone missing. He was found in one of the Man Camps with one of the oil workers. They were passing him around from trailer to trailer."
He went there looking for a job and was hired by individuals within the Man Camp to do light cleaning in and around their personal areas. The young teenager was forced into sex slavery. It's the kind of thing you hear about in the ghettos of third world countries; not in the quiet and remote countryside.
The victims aren't just males but females too. Everyone has heard by now of the missing school teacher that was kidnapped as she was out jogging, repeatedly sexually assaulted, and murdered near one of these Man Camps. The age of the Man Camp victims varies. The assailants are not necessarily looking for male and female adults. They are also going after little girls.
Grace Her Many Horse recalls one specific instance where "We found a crying, naked,
four year old girl running down one of the roads right outside of the Man Camp. She had been sexually assaulted."
Comment: This is just one area where a general knowledge of ponerology would do the world a lot of good. Rodger was obviously mentally disturbed: his shallow affect contrasted to his overly emotional wording, his asocial demeanor, his 'weird' behavior resulting in few friends, his hypersensitive reactions to perceived insults and slights. Not to mention his pathological and contradictory views of himself and women. On the one hand all he wanted was to 'love and be loved', he was a 'perfect gentleman', and he despised the 'cruel and heartless' girls who did not accept his advances (if there even were any). On the other hand, he displays his own cruelty and heartlessness, utter lack of 'gentlemanly' qualities, and love in the act of premeditated murder.
Forget about gun laws! If police had an iota of psychological knowledge, this tragedy could have been prevented. Of course, for this to work, the police forces themselves would have to be purged of their own psychopaths.