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In reply to the discussion: Call police about domestic violence and get evicted [View all]lapislzi
(5,762 posts)It's a horrible law. A poster downthread mentioned something about "upping the ante" in DV cases, to emphasize the consequences of repeated disturbances.
I have no problem with ante-upping in principle, but no provisions exist to protect the displaces victims.
The motivation behind such a law is probably fiduciary in nature, as it costs money to send the cops out. And that's one reason why it sucks. It doesn't care a damn for what happens to the displaced.
If the city wants to remove the Briggs family from the property, then the city should have a plan in place to rehouse Mrs. Briggs and the children after their removal and the presumptive incarceration of the abuser. But we don't live in that kind of society.
We live in a society that can and will throw women and children out on the street. Hence the righteous outrage on this thread.
Being a solution-based person myself, I'm looking at this and trying to figure out how to work with it, how to make it an actual useful piece of legislation.