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Jedi Guy

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10. Domestic violence calls are the absolute worst.
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 08:40 PM
Feb 2018

When I was a dispatcher, I used to hate sending officers to DV calls because it could go sideways in an instant. It was really heartbreaking when the first officer would arrive on scene and wait to go deal with the situation until his backup arrived, because the abuse was still going on. But sending an officer into that situation solo... not a good idea.

I remember one DV call where the officers arrived to find the woman with a busted lip, black eye, and broken teeth. They arrested the scumbag husband and were walking him out, and the woman attacked them to stop them taking the husband away! I was absolutely floored by that.

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