Claims that 'defunding the police' will harm women ignore dire problems in policing gender-based crimes today.
have been on the rise. Four women a day are killed by intimate partners, according to research by Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox.A participant holding a"Defund Police" sign at a protest. Hundreds of protesters flooded the streets of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, New York, to demand the defunding of the police force and to demonstrate against police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's death.
against their partners. It is impossible to calculate the frequency of such offenses as their victims are among the least likely to report, though small studies from the 1990s estimated that between 28% and 40% of police officers act violently toward spouses and children. Little research has been done since.
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in using restorative justice, which focuses on repairing the harm caused by the behavior rather than on punishment, in domestic violence cases. While models vary, victims and those who committed harm, along with members of the community, generally sit down together, along with a facilitator, and discuss the impact of the violence and create a plan for safety and repair.
She speaks from personal experience. Growing up, she watched her mother suffer violent abuse from her partner, a man who also physically and sexually abused Rodriguez. In her teen years, he was arrested and charged. But the criminal justice process that her family went through left her demoralized. Years later, her family entered into a restorative justice program with their abuser, facilitated by Fresno Pacific University. It was only then, she said, that she began to heal.
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