Police chiefs have defended their handling of a pilot scheme to help the victims of domestic violence after statistics revealed a massive discrepancy in the way the police deal with men and women victims.Gosh. How utterly unexpected…
The Western Daily Press obtained figures that show that even though hundreds of men reported that they were victims of domestic violence, only one of the 103 newly piloted Domestic Violence Protection Orders issued by magistrates since the trial scheme began last July has been issued to protect a male victim.And what do the police have to say? What excuses do they offer? What rationalisations are they making?
Oh. It appears the answer is...none:
2/10, must do better.
Det Insp Matt Stone, the domestic abuse lead for Wiltshire police, said: “We take all reports of domestic abuse extremely seriously – whether the victim is a man or a woman.”Well, clearly, the results show otherwise.
2/10, must do better.
I attended a conference on this on 2005 AP - it's been known 'forever'. I suspect the real victims are kids in the house and people sharing party walls. There are trials of special DV courts and so on - but what's needed is to get all parties in court asap to get the matter out of police hands and the process taken forward by a court.
ReplyDelete"Well, clearly, the results show otherwise...."
ReplyDelete...and a Stone faced liar.
Back in the old days big brothers and big sisters would have it sorted.
ReplyDeleteNow you all want the state to sort everything. And is the state willing !
I wonder just how prevalent it is?
ReplyDeleteMost men would do anything but admit something they'll see as shameful. Then there's the problem that women are actively protected from any repercussions when both are involved in violence (it's always the mans fault).
I suspect that violence is only the tiniest tip of the ice-berg as compared to abuse, witness the percentages of separations where the woman refuses child contact with the father, makes accusations (amazingly found in the absolute majority of cases to be baseless) of violence and even paedophilia - to score points. If they are that willing to do so in public, what was their behaviour like in private? And if the man responds - he'll be arrested.
Ah, but it'll be the mans fault anyway! As you say, some animals are more equal than others.
" I suspect the real victims are kids in the house and people sharing party walls."
ReplyDeleteSpot on! Where's the concern for them?
"Now you all want the state to sort everything. And is the state willing !"
Indeed!
"I suspect that violence is only the tiniest tip of the ice-berg as compared to abuse..."
Oh, no doubt. Some types of abuse leave no visible scars, but are just as damaging.
It is exactly the same all over the country. One male friend was laughed at by the police when he went to report an assault by his (now thankfully ex-)wife. He was in a job which required enhanced CRB clearance and she had threatened him that if he ever left a mark on her she would immediately allege assault by him on her, and this was after incidents such as pushing him down a flight of stairs into a cellar and locking him in the cellar, stamping on his bare foot as he exited the shower with her stiletto heels and waking in the middle of the night with her holding a carving knife to his throat. Only when she "glassed" him and the NHS staff in A&E insisted that this was a non-accidental injury and not self-inflicted would the police get involved. And this was not in Wiltshire.
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