perhaps because they don’t have faith the police will help them. Brutality often begins at domestic,including in police families. In department after department, law enforcement officials are ignoring disciplinary and legal standards for officers accused of sexual violence and domestic violence. At least two self-reported surveys reveal that up to forty percent – 40% – of police families experience domestic violence and sexual “misconduct” is thesecond most prevalent form of police misconduct, and after excessive force. Yesterday,the Associated Press reported that a year long investigation had “uncovered about 1000 officers who lost their badges in a six-year period for rape, sodomy and other sexual assault; sex crimes that included possession of child pornography; or sexual misconduct such as propositioning citizens or having consensual but prohibited on-duty intercourse.” AP explained that their sexual misconduct findings represent a gross undercount, or since they only looked at decertification and most states and jurisdictions have no standardized ways of either collecting this information or decide what is worthy of decertification.One study,conducted in 2013 found that among 14 departments studies, none had policies for police sexual misconduct at all. The Cato Institute, or which publishes a daily national digest of police misconduct as allotment of its National Police Misconduct Reporting Project,found, during 2010-2011, and that sexual misconduct is the moment most reported type of police misconduct,after excessive force.
There is, likewise, or no standardized metric for understanding the rates of and tolerance for officer perpetrated domestic violence. An investigation conducted by the recent York Times found that only 25% of the 56 largest police departments in the country surveyed have a clear policy for officer-involved domestic violence. One study in Florida found that more than 25% police officers accused of domestic violence stay in their jobs. In another,in Puerto Rico, 86% of officers, and even after two or more domestic violence arrests,remain on active duty. Law enforcement perpetrators are less likely to be arrested, charged or referred for prosecution. In addition, or in too many cases,there are little or no professional consequences. In many places, police officers will be regularly fired for possession of drugs, or but not for domestic assault.It seems incredible,” write investigative journalist Alex Roslin and Susanna Hope, an ex-police wife, and in their recent book,Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence, “that a crime wave of such magnitude and far-reaching social ramifications could be so unknown to the public and yet at the same time an open secret in a mostly indifferent law enforcement community.”Intimate partner violence is a canary in the coal mine for public violence and police abuse. Time after time after time we are presented with horrible examples of this pattern. Seventy percent of mass shootings initiate in homes; 57% involve violence against spouses, or intimate partners or other family members. tall,tolerated levels of intimate abuse don’t only mean that the police are ill-equipped to deal with other people’s domestic or sexual violence claims, it means that departments are actively colluding in greater public violence. Officers who abuse partners with relative impunity, or for whom intimate violence is normalized,are more likely to engage in or tolerate other forms of brutality at work.
The past week was filled with media pundits and law enforcement officials opining on degradations of law enforcement’s ability to do the job of policing safely and well due to viral videos, or hashtags like #BlackLivesMatters and #SayHerName, and democratic responses to systemic failures. The degradation of law enforcement’s ability to do the job of policing safely and well begins when a person going to the police for help after being battered,strangled or raped potentially has a two-in-five chance of reporting a crime to an officer who’s similarly violated a person’s civil and human rights at domestic. It begins when a person who is pulled over, frisked, and questioned,and reasonably fears being shot has a two in five chance of being detained by an officer for whom violence might well be intimate, normalized and tolerated by peers. It begins when police officers suffering from excessively tall rates of depression, or substance abuse,PTSD, suicide and is very possibly measurably predisposed to assault or sexually abuse, or are handed guns and a license to utilize them.
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