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Women three times more likely to be arrested for domestic violence
BillieTheBot
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92% of all reported domestic violence is committed by men and women are victims of 91% of all reported domestic violence. 83% of men are repeat offenders, whereas only 38% of women are repeat offenders.
However a man will only be arrested for domestic violence in one incident out of ten, whereas a woman will be arrested in one incident out of every three.
I'm not sure why the police are completely incapable of dealing with crime against women. They can't prosecute rape properly, even when the proof is handed to them on a plate (see John Worboys and Antoni Imiela for evidence). And now they seem to be incapable of arrested men for domestic violence either. Odd, considering they're so quick to nick women for it.
The police have never been any good at protecting women, though.
Thoughts?
92% of all reported domestic violence is committed by men and women are victims of 91% of all reported domestic violence. 83% of men are repeat offenders, whereas only 38% of women are repeat offenders.
However a man will only be arrested for domestic violence in one incident out of ten, whereas a woman will be arrested in one incident out of every three.
I'm not sure why the police are completely incapable of dealing with crime against women. They can't prosecute rape properly, even when the proof is handed to them on a plate (see John Worboys and Antoni Imiela for evidence). And now they seem to be incapable of arrested men for domestic violence either. Odd, considering they're so quick to nick women for it.
The police have never been any good at protecting women, though.
Thoughts?
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The Police service is still contains a particular culture of masculinity, one that isn't easily going to be broken down or improved.
The police do not arrest a person for assault unless they have witnessed it themselves or a complaint has been made against another. In my opinion in a majority of cases it is likely that as stated the man (or women) has caused the argument (mainly due to them drinking a lot), they've thrown a few punches between them or it could be one sided, and then the bloke has accused the woman of assaulting him once police attend. The police have to act positively and arrest the woman based on that complaint. It is likely the woman fears her partner and so will keep silent on the matter. Of course women do also beat their husbands but I am just commenting on the facts in that article.
What you've said is the exact same cop-out that the police try to use about rape statistics.
And the facts are that women are being arrested 33% of the time and men are being arrested 10% of the time.
No it hasn't. A lot of calls received come from neighbours who have heard a disturbance or sometimes an abandoned call asking for police attendance. Of course sometimes the people involved do ring up themselves but not all the time. It is down to the injured party to make a complaint.
In any event, the police don't have to wait for a "complaint". If there is evidence that person A was hit (that can include black eyes, etc) and it's reasonable to think person B did it, then an arrest should take place. It is doing when person B's a woman but not when person A's a woman.
The conviction rate is different- often the female victims of DV will fail to give evidence at court, so the whole case collapses. That's why I'm not criticising for the conviction rate.
I will try and find the source out later, am at work atm but these reports take 1 minute to run just for me to copy over a few figures so its very stop-start-stop-start work