This is a great article, and I'm glad that someone has come up with a method to get people to realize that yes, your abusive partner IS trying to kill you!
The Rose Brooks Center opened it's new wing in May of this year, and are working on getting a pet shelter started in order to house ALL the members of families who are escaping domestic violence.
There have been studies on the relationship between domestic abuse and animal abuse. The results indicate it will pay off to invest in domestic violence awareness programs among staff of veterinarian clinics to stress the importance of reporting cases they suspect to be animal abuse cases.
Someone who beats or kicks a partner/child might also beat or kick the dog/cat. Other abusers start with abusing the (ex-)partner’s pet to get at their (ex-)partner before becoming violent towards their (ex-)partner.
Excellent article! I work on-call in a DV shelter in the Denver area and we do some of the lethality screening but not as in-depth as is presented here.
Phyllis Schlafly wrote on Townhall.com last summer that VAWA was “feminist pork”; Janice Shaw Crouse, a senior fellow at the conservative Beverly LaHaye Institute, has argued that VAWA’s overly broad definitions of violence have sent men to jail for “unpleasant speech” and “emotional distress.”
I will not mourn the day when Phyllis Schlafly leaves the land of the living. :|
These stories are heartbreaking. And I don't understand why the police couldn't have arrested the Pito guy for at the very fucking least breaking and entering. As important and helpful as the screening seems, wouldn't training police to actually arrest men in situations like that help too?
I can't understand why he was not arrested. I mean, breaking and entering, threatening her nephew... they could have stopped everything if they had just arrested the douchebag.
The opening story with what happened to Jo'Anna Bird is heartbreaking. Her death was completely preventable and it's horrifying that she did so many things to help herself and yet law enforcement refused to protect her.
If the police had actually taken her seriously and enforced the protective orders she had maybe she would still be alive. JFC.
This is a good (upsetting, rage inducing) article and I hope things are looking up for Maryland.
It's been a while since I lived in Baltimore, though, and I know when I was there a lot of "reduced crime" was because police simply did not record arrests, or did not arrest. I wonder whether this is also a factor.
I know when I was there a lot of "reduced crime" was because police simply did not record arrests, or did not arrest. I wonder whether this is also a factor.
Yeah, this was especially a huge issue with sexual assault (so it wouldn't surprise me if domestic violence was facing similar police apathy). I know the Baltimore Police Department was under investigation for it 2 or 3 years ago, but I don't know what came of that.
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I DETEST Phyllis Schlafly.
http://www.rosebrooks.org/
The Rose Brooks Center opened it's new wing in May of this year, and are working on getting a pet shelter started in order to house ALL the members of families who are escaping domestic violence.
http://www.thebark.com/content/dog-inspires-shelter-become-pet-friendly
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And yes-our pets help us humans balance more than we will ever know, and they need to come with us when we have to flee!
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Someone who beats or kicks a partner/child might also beat or kick the dog/cat. Other abusers start with abusing the (ex-)partner’s pet to get at their (ex-)partner before becoming violent towards their (ex-)partner.
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Phyllis Schlafly wrote on Townhall.com last summer that VAWA was “feminist pork”; Janice Shaw Crouse, a senior fellow at the conservative Beverly LaHaye Institute, has argued that VAWA’s overly broad definitions of violence have sent men to jail for “unpleasant speech” and “emotional distress.”
OH GOD WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE MENZ
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These stories are heartbreaking. And I don't understand why the police couldn't have arrested the Pito guy for at the very fucking least breaking and entering. As important and helpful as the screening seems, wouldn't training police to actually arrest men in situations like that help too?
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That is one obituary that I will read with great pleasure!
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Honestly, she should have been holding Jerry Falwell's hand all the way to hell.
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The opening story with what happened to Jo'Anna Bird is heartbreaking. Her death was completely preventable and it's horrifying that she did so many things to help herself and yet law enforcement refused to protect her.
If the police had actually taken her seriously and enforced the protective orders she had maybe she would still be alive. JFC.
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Ugh. Fuck the police.
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It's been a while since I lived in Baltimore, though, and I know when I was there a lot of "reduced crime" was because police simply did not record arrests, or did not arrest. I wonder whether this is also a factor.
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Yeah, this was especially a huge issue with sexual assault (so it wouldn't surprise me if domestic violence was facing similar police apathy). I know the Baltimore Police Department was under investigation for it 2 or 3 years ago, but I don't know what came of that.
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