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NHI - No Humans Involved
Anyone ever heard this term? I hadn't before today. I read it in a blog post about some scandals in the UK. I went looking for more information and found this.
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~esisco/info/nhi_article.html
NHI—No Humans Involved, one of ongoing series of public art projects about community issues addressed the sexual assault and murder of forty-five women in San Diego from 1985 to 1992. The project began on February 19, 1992, with the unveiling of two billboards bearing the picture of Donna Gentile and the letters NHI. Gentile was the second victim in the string of murders. A sex worker and police informant, Gentile was found strangled to death, her mouth stuffed with gravel, a month after she testified against two police officers.
Two days after the billboards went up, we opened a rented storefront gallery in downtown San Diego to display portraits representing the forty-five murdered women and distribute a book that described in detail police involvement with Gentile and a number of the other dead women, and police mishandling of the murder investigations.
Carla Kirkwood's performance, MWI-Many Women Involved, ran for three nights in the gallery space. A community forum addressing the series of murders and violence against women was held in the gallery space on International Women's Day. The goal of the project was to pay tribute to the murdered women, raise public awareness about the series of murders and the botched police investigation, and relate the local reaction to the crimes to larger social attitudes towards gender violence.
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Lewis' claim that officers don't use NHI is refuted by published accounts of police officers who admit to using the term. In 1990, the Sacramento Bee quoted a San Diego police officer: "These were misdemeanor murders, biker women and hookers. we'd call them NHI's-no humans involved." While the exhibit was open, a police officer and a paramedic both wrote comments in the gallery book acknowledging ongoing use of NHI. Calling himself an investigator of misdemeanor murders, the police officer said he had been trained to disregard the humanity of victims from the "darker side" of life.
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NHI—No Humans Involved, one of ongoing series of public art projects about community issues addressed the sexual assault and murder of forty-five women in San Diego from 1985 to 1992. The project began on February 19, 1992, with the unveiling of two billboards bearing the picture of Donna Gentile and the letters NHI. Gentile was the second victim in the string of murders. A sex worker and police informant, Gentile was found strangled to death, her mouth stuffed with gravel, a month after she testified against two police officers.
Two days after the billboards went up, we opened a rented storefront gallery in downtown San Diego to display portraits representing the forty-five murdered women and distribute a book that described in detail police involvement with Gentile and a number of the other dead women, and police mishandling of the murder investigations.
Carla Kirkwood's performance, MWI-Many Women Involved, ran for three nights in the gallery space. A community forum addressing the series of murders and violence against women was held in the gallery space on International Women's Day. The goal of the project was to pay tribute to the murdered women, raise public awareness about the series of murders and the botched police investigation, and relate the local reaction to the crimes to larger social attitudes towards gender violence.
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Lewis' claim that officers don't use NHI is refuted by published accounts of police officers who admit to using the term. In 1990, the Sacramento Bee quoted a San Diego police officer: "These were misdemeanor murders, biker women and hookers. we'd call them NHI's-no humans involved." While the exhibit was open, a police officer and a paramedic both wrote comments in the gallery book acknowledging ongoing use of NHI. Calling himself an investigator of misdemeanor murders, the police officer said he had been trained to disregard the humanity of victims from the "darker side" of life.
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