SOUTH CAROLINA RANKS #2 IN THE NATION FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS A LEARNED BEHAVIOR. (FACT)
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF INJURY TO WOMEN: more so than muggings, stranger rapes and car accidents combined. A woman is therefore safer on the streets than she is in her own home; SHE IS NINE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE BATTERED BY HER PARTNER THAN BY A STRANGER (FBI.)
Women are less likely to be victims of violent crimes overall; however, WOMAN ARE FIVE TO EIGHT TIMES MORE LIKELY THAN MEN TO BE VICTIMIZED BY AN INTIMATE PARTNER. OVER 95% OF ALL BATTERING VICTIMS ARE WOMEN. (FBI)
BETWEEN 22% AND 35% OF ALL EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS BY WOMEN ARE FOR INJURIES RELATED TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. (FBI)
ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 37% OF ALL PREGNANT WOMEN ARE BEING BATTERED. (AMA)
ONE OUT OF EVERY FOUR AMERICAN WOMEN (26%) REPORT THAT THEY HAVE BEEN PHYSICALLY ABUSED BY A HUSBAND OR INTIMATE PARTNER. 30% OF AMERICANS SAY THEY KNOW A WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN PHYSICALLY ABUSED BY A HUSBAND OR INTIMATE PARTNER IN THE PAST YEAR. (FBI)
MORE THEN THREE MILLION CHILDREN WITNESS ACTS OF VIOLENCE IN THE HOME EVERY YEAR IN THE U.S. 60% OF KNOWN ABUSERS WITNESSED OR EXPERIENCED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AS A CHILD. (FBI)
75% OFF THE WOMEN MURDERED BY THEIR HUSBANDS OR INTIMATE PARTNERS WERE ATTEMPTING TO LEAVE AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP. (FBI)
CHILDREN OF ABUSED MOTHERS ARE SIX TIMES MORE LIKELY TO ATTEMPT SUICIDE AND 50% MORE LIKELY TO ABUSE DRUGS AND ALCOHOL. (FBI)
AS YOU CAN PROBABLY GUESS IT'S EVEN MORE DIFFICULT TO GET HELP WHEN YOUR SPOUSE/ INTIMATE PARTNER IS THE LAW. NOT ONLY IS IT OFTEN IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE A REPORT, PARTNERS ARE UNDER THREAT IF THE OFFICER'S JOB IS PUT AT RISK, THE PROSECUTOR IS ACCUSTOMED TO BEING ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE TABLE AS THE POLICE, AND THE JUDGE IS USUALLY FOCUSED MORE ON SPARING THE OFFICER'S "CAREER" - REGARDLESS OF THE SEVERITY OF THE ABUSE, THAN THE SAFETY OF THE VICTIMS. THIS LEADS OFFICER'S DOWN A DANGEROUS ROAD TOO OFTEN OF FEELING THAT THEY CAN DO AS THEY PLEASE. EVEN WHEN THEY ARE FIRED, OFTEN THEY ARE ARBITRATED BACK IN - OR THEY "RESIGN" BEFORE THE INTERNAL INVESTIGATION SO THAT THEY CAN BE HIRED ELSEWHERE. IT IS A NETWORK PUPPETTED BY POLICE UNIONS, WHICH ARE NEARLY IMPERMEABLE.
IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR VICTIMS TO HIDE BECAUSE OF THE RESOURCES AND POWER-OF-ACCESS THE OFFICER AND HIS FELLOW OFFICERS HAVE.
MORE THAN THE OFFICER SUFFERS STRESS - ALL THOSE AROUND HIM OR HER - AND STRESS IS NOT AN EXCUSE FOR OFFICERS OR NON-OFFICERS TO BREAK THE LAW. IT IS A TACTICAL-COMBAT, TAKE-CHARGE, GUN CULTURE WITH HIGH CONSEQUENCES FOR ACTIONS LABELED "DOMESTIC."
OFFICERS ARE ALSO OFTEN THE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, NOT JUST THE PERPETRATORS. IT'S A VERY COMPLEX ISSUE THAT BEGS FOR MORE ILLUMINATION.
I'D LIKE TO PROVIDE YOU WITH SOME LINKS, AND INVITE YOU TO EXPLORE. I THINK YOU'LL FIND THEM VERY INTERESTING.
OFFICER-INVOLVED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LINKS:
BLOG: BEHIND THE BLUE WALL
http://behindthebluewall.blogspot.com/
A Photoshow of Officer-Involved Domestic Violence Fatalities
http://www.lanejudson.com/OFFICER_INVOLVED_FATALITIES.htm
FATHER OF CRYSTAL JUDSON WHO WAS KILLED BY HER POLICE CHIEF HUSBAND:
http://www.lanejudson.com/
Domestic Violence in Police Families
Page from Purple Berets
http://www.purpleberets.org/violence_police_families.html
If Your Batterer Is a Cop
Page from Purple Berets
http://www.purpleberets.org/violence_ifacop.html
Police Family Violence Fact Sheet
from The National Center for Women and Policing
http://www.womenandpolicing.org/violenceFS.asp
ABUSE OF POWER
http://www.abuseofpower.info/
OFFICERS AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT DV
http://www.myspace.com/foreoaledv
COMPASS Of Carolina
1100 Rutherford Road
Greenville, South Carolina 29609
http://www.compassofcarolina.org/
864.467.3434 In State
800.203.9692 Other Areas
email: [email protected]
Are You In A Violent Or Abusive Relationship?
There Is A Place That Can Help....
24 Hour Crisis Line
1.800.291.2139
A Safe Home, When Home Isn't Safe
Safe Harbor I
In Greenville, South Carolina
864.467.3636
Safe Harbor II
In Anderson, South Carolina
864.261.3633
Serving Greenville, Anderson, Pickens & Oconee Counties
Hope Chest
2111-J North Pleasantburg Drive
Greenville, South Carolina
864.242.1751
I am a victim of Police Domestic Violence/ABHAN. My perpetrator (Donald Douglas Ross, Sr of Greenville, SC) was a 32 year veteran SLED agent with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and was tried and convicted June 2008. MySpace page will focus mainly on Law Enforcement Domestic Violence.
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WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina | SLED agent charged with assault and battery resigns
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5627300&na...
