Jezebel has reported that two studies indicate that “forty percent of police families experience domestic violence,” a statistic that puts such rates of abuse at “two to four times” that of non-police households. An astute reader asks this question: does this mean forty percent of police officers should be disarmed under the Lautenberg Amendment? I think I’d be okay with that.
March 18, 2013
March 18th, 2013 at 8:20 pm
Frightening…but not surprising. “Law Enforcement, have been taught to be bullies, and bullies always pick on those who are smaller and weaker than they are.
March 18th, 2013 at 9:38 pm
Yeah, I wasn’t all that surprised either. The essence of policing is to use force, or at least the threat of force, when confronted with a problem. Some readers tried to apologize for the police as if stress on the job somehow made this abuse acceptable. It doesn’t.