Cops Beat Their Wives & Girlfriends At Double The National Rate, Still Receive Promotions

[Willy]

Statistics show that 1 in 4 women in the US is a victim of domestic violence, those numbers jump to 1 in 2 if they are married to a cop.

May 7, 2014

Law Enforcement officers beat their significant other at nearly double the national average. Several studies, according to Diane Wetendorf, author of Police Domestic Violence: Handbook for Victims, indicate that women suffer domestic abuse in at least 40 percent of police officer families. For American women overall, the figure is 25 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to The Advocates for Human Rights Organization, studies indicate that police families are 2-4 times more likely than the general population to experience domestic violence, making the potential for disparities in protective success particularly troubling.

Historian John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, has a famous quote, Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This rings true through all levels of government ‘power,’ however it is particular prevalent among police officers.

Sociopaths are attracted to positions in which they are able to assert authority over others, so it should come as no surprise that there are higher concentrations of sociopaths within law enforcement.

The trouble with spousal abuse lies in the very nature of police work. The authority and control in the wrong hands, will be misused, according to domestic violence counselors.

What makes police domestic violence more difficult to deal with is the fact that women feel scared to report it. Even advocates for battered women are reluctant to dive into domestic violence cases involving police for fear of alienating the agencies they rely upon for help in other abuse cases,  according to a report by SFGate.

When other women report their abuse, they do so to law enforcement officers. Think about it from the position of the one being abused by a law enforcement officer. The one doing the beating is simultaneously holding a position in which they are tasked with preventing that very abuse!

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-beat-wives-girlfriends-double-national-rate-receive-promotions/#ski0KOGU5AeJgTjG.99

Edited August 11, 2014 by Willy

[I wood]

Not too shocking.

I would be willing to bet they get away with it at a higher rate also.

[Chauncy Gardner]

Why am I not surprised?

 

The police have become more like the "Taliban Religious Police" than the venerable, high minded public servants they like to portray themselves as.

 

It is beyond time to reign the police in and make them live up to the standards they profess to uphold.

 

It wouldn't hurt to dial back the response to minor crimes (shoplifting, selling cigarettes on the street corner, smoking pot, etc) either. Minor crimes do not deserve to be punished with beatings (figuratively and literally) and murder.

 

Cameras on cops would really help.

[+Malamute]

Brownshirts.

 

We should not allow anyone who was in Military to be in the Police force.

 

We should stop treating the police as a military force.

 

We should stop allowing police to do steroids.

 

We should not allow the police to investigate themselves.

 

We should quit hiring meatheads with violent tendencies.

 

We should stop hiring police officers who act racist.

 

 I could go on and on...

[Highlander]

Brownshirts.

 

We should not allow anyone who was in Military to be in the Police force.

 

We should stop treating the police as a military force.

 

We should stop allowing police to do steroids.

 

We should not allow the police to investigate themselves.

 

We should quit hiring meatheads with violent tendencies.

 

We should stop hiring police officers who act racist.

 

 I could go on and on...

 

Maybe we should do like they do in the UK and just give them a wooden stick instead of firearms.

[+Malamute]

They would still beat the crap out of people.