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  Yeah most groups I was involved with did Scout safety right- and justly so! From an on-the-ground angle the adult leaders were very interested in everyone's safety.
  The bigger issue was with Council, the bureaucrats and organizational components, with 60 year old men who never left the 1950s behind. There was absolutely a disconnect between Troop level and the organization level in terms of priorities at times.
context: Why are they not protesting in front of Catholic Churches? >
  
  Or Boy Scout troops?
  
  Sex-Abuse Claims Against Boy Scouts Now Surpass 82,000 >
  
  As an assistant den leader, it amazes me that they let it get that far out of fear of how people would perceive them. If they went ahead and took down these kiddy diddlers as they were being reported, they wouldn't have lost so many people joining the scouts and being sued into oblivion.
  So many abusers could have been outed and taken down by law enforcement with the amount of reports they had from families. >
  
  Because the boy scouts and pedophilia go hand in hand with protecting hierarchies. I think it's inevitable that a patriarchal organization like the Boy Scouts would end up harboring pedophiles, same as the church, same as right wingers.
  It's all the same thing, and it's projection all the way down. >
  
  There's some merit to the consideration of maintaining hierarchies here; I was active in the local/regional Council in the late 90s/early 00s and the Old Boys Club attitudes ran deep. 
  Granted that my experiences are anecdotal, tie some percentage of this being the case to a situation where the BSA is bonded at the hip to many churches for facilities and recruitment and an environment that protects itself all the way up, with a social institution (on both sides) to back that up. >
  
  I was in scouts from the 90s to the early 00s. I feel like I was lucky since it was drilled into us to never be alone with another adult besides our parents. Always use the buddy system.  Report any issues or problems with a parent etc. 
  We even had to watch that sexual abuse video every year where the coach guy takes the kids home and video tapes them “wrestling” or whatever. 
  I went to the national jamboree in 01 and even there, we weren’t to be alone with any adults and always had to be with our “buddies”.