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Lee-Lee

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13. When I worked DV as a deputy
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 02:47 PM
Sep 2014

About 40-45% of my arrests for domestic violence related charges were females.

Females were much more likely to violate protective orders too, something that really surprised me at first.

Most of the women didn't consider themselves guilty of domestic violence, because they were of the mindset that it only worked one way- so they would slap or push or spit on their spouse/boyfriend/partner in front of me, or freely tell me they did. In their eyes the female was "allowed" to do this, it's part of the culture and mindset in the south in many areas- she can slap him, but he best not lay a finger on her.

But the law, save for a few exceptions here in NC, is blind as to gender. As it should be.

But when it is not actually witnessed by an officer of confessed to by the suspect in virtually every case the male side does not seek any kind of legal assistance, so that male masculine refusal to seek legal or other assistance will skew any legal statistics- while most women who get hit don't ever report it, a far higher percentage of men don't and will refuse to consider themselves victims of domestic violence because it's emasculating to them.

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