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    Thread: Cops beat their Wives at Twice the Average Rate

    1. 01-16-2012 04:12 AM #1
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      Cops beat their Wives at Twice the Average Rate

      Police domestic violence nearly twice average rate

      "The biggest problem for a woman reporting that she's been abused by her police officer husband or boyfriend is that nobody believes you," said Diane Wetendorf of Chicago, who wrote a nationally used victim handbook, "Police Domestic Violence."

      "If you do speak up, the police are very good at turning the accusations around," Wetendorf said. "The women get terrified, too, so the crime is very under-reported. There is a legitimate fear of retaliation."
      Several studies, according to Gandy and Wetendorf, 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.
      If you call a cop a wife-beater, you have a 40% chance of being right.
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    2. 01-16-2012 04:30 AM #2
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      If the punishment for the crime is any bit as soft as for the various other crimes I've seen cops lose a day or two of vacation time over (in the US), I can see why a woman wouldn't report such a thing.
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      Thread title made me lol
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      Quote Originally Posted by Sornaensis View Post
      Thread title made me lol
      Why?........

      Doesn't surprise me, most of the people that get in to that line of work are the bully type anyway.

      25% of American cops, which country pushes it up to 40%?
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      25% of families, 40% of police families

      (that statistic seems high to me, though)

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      Quote Originally Posted by Omnis Dei View Post
      25% of families, 40% of police families

      (that statistic seems high to me, though)
      That's because you're a naive fool.
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      Quote Originally Posted by cmind View Post
      That's because you're a naive fool.
      Why must you persist with the douchbaggery, good sir?
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      Those statistics are slightly depressing. =/
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      Quote Originally Posted by Omnis Dei View Post
      25% of families, 40% of police families

      (that statistic seems high to me, though)
      Oh, misread it. Well, it's not really double then. Double would be 50%.

      Or are we using the "x amount go untold" bullshit?
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    9. 01-17-2012 02:20 AM #9
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      No the article itself says nearly twice, I just said twice because I'm a PR devil wakka wakka.

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