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The Demise of Proud Boys Provides Object Lesson for Detering DV Perps
The Proud Boys once flaunted their rage and anger on the national stage, empowered by a tepid police response to their campaigns of harassment, intimidation, and violence. Even the indictments against their leaders did not slow them down. Then in 2023, they began a precipitous decline despite backing from Trump…
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Reframing DV Suggested in Awesome Australian Study
The conclusions of an Australian study, Who Uses Domestic, Family, and Sexual Violence, How, and Why? The State of Knowledge Report on Violence Perpetration, are extremely relevant to the U.S. and probably across the world. They are, first- “The vast majority of domestic, family, and sexual violence is committed by…
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New York Police, Prosecutors First Try to Frame DV Victim, Then Go After Victim Advocates
Tracy McCarter’s estranged husband, James Murray, was killed in 2020 in New York City. Four police officers and an investigator from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office worked the case. Murray suffered from what is now called an alcohol use disorder. When he got drunk, he didn’t fall asleep or get…
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Insurance Can Be Used as Part of Abusers’ Arsenal
Allianz Australia, an insurance company, has found that insurance products are often used to coerce and control DV victims-survivors. The insurer found seven insurance issues and related consumer risk. They include: 1) Claim may be declined if malicious damage is intentionally caused by a perpetrator invited into the customer’s home;…
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Imprisoned Missouri Victim, Gypsy Blanchard, Paroled
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was sentenced to ten years in Missouri for getting her online boyfriend to murder her mother in 2016. She was 23 at the time. The killer got life. Two days before the new year, Blanchard was paroled. Green County Sheriff Jim Arnott told the press in 2015…
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Georgia Sheriff Raised $30,000 for DV Services
Last October, a Butts County Georgia church hosted the “Hidden Bruises” DV Awareness Benefit Concert. The concert coincided with DV Awareness Month and was hosted by the County’s Sheriff and District Attorney. There was also an invitation-only survivors’ dinner. According to the Jackson Progress-Argus, the event was the brainchild of…
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England and Wales Act to Decriminalize DV. Is the US Far Behind?
In its drive to reduce its prison population, England and Wales have adopted a sentencing bill that requires their judges to give suspended sentences in lieu of prison terms of up to a year. (In the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and Scotland have autonomy over their criminal justice systems.) Despite…
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DV Victim Cracking Blue Shield Protecting Police Abuser
While law enforcement agencies exhibit varying degrees of competency and commitment when it comes to DV enforcement, most are hardly enthusiastic to say the least when it comes to holding fellow officers accountable. Critics describe a “blue shield” protecting abusers on the force. That is cracking in Fall River, Massachusetts…
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Dismissing Deadly Abusers
It is an old saw in DV policing that the (even lowly) misdemeanor DV arrest is homicide prevention. Like a lot of old saws, however, it is only partially true. The misdemeanor DV arrest can prevent future DV but only if the arrest is not trivialized by indifferent or incompetent…
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