Lisa Kalayji on Nostr: "Though data on police domestic violence is not only notoriously difficult to gather ...

"Though data on police domestic violence is not only notoriously difficult to gather but also skewed by a culture of silence and intimidation, it suggests that police officers in the United States perpetrate acts of domestic violence at roughly 15 times the rate of the general population. Because officers tend to protect their own, domestic victims of violent cops often don’t know where to go.

The more honest officers will tell you that policing is a job about control... These men aren’t losing control. They are maintaining control."

https://www.fatherly.com/life/police-brutality-and-domestic-violence

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