Dammed if they do and dammed if they don't - police are getting a
hammering for rushing to aid battered wives. Making them a priority
might be an over-reaction, Essex Police has been told.
I think
not. Too many women are dead because cops turned the other cheek. When I
was a young reporter they would not take action in "domestics," because
what happened in the family home stayed there. Women were still seen as
the property of their husbands - and that really isn't so very long
ago.
Now after the murders of Maria Stubbings in 2008 and
Christine Chambers and her two-year-old daughter in 2011, Essex police
promise to respond to calls in less than an hour. Good. Violence should
always warrant an immediate turn out, even if they are getting 80 calls a
day.
Just that number alone is enough to freeze the blood. If
abusive men - or women - know they will be hauled off to a cell maybe
they will think before they punch. Police are there to protect and if
that means fewer on car tax patrol that's fine with me.
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