“Statistics show that 1 in 4 women in the US is a victim of domestic violence, those numbers jump to 1 in 2 if they are married to a cop.
Law Enforcement officers beat their significant other at nearly double the national average. Several studies, according to Diane Wetendorf, author of Police Domestic Violence: Handbook for Victims, indicate that women suffer domestic abuse in at least 40 percent of police officer families. For American women overall, the figure is 25 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
— Cops Beat Their Wives & Girlfriends At Double The National Rate, Still Receive Promotions | The Free Thought Project (Photo Credit: CopBlock)
The public: “Why didn’t you go to the police?”
Abuse victim: “Because my abuser is the police.”
Sadly this is all too common and some of them use scare tactics such as “I am an important figure in the police department and no one will help you/I will track you down and kill you if you run away/etc”.
Because my abuser is the police.
(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)
