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SAVE: Press Release: VAWA Must Stop Funding Lethal Mandatory Arrest Policies

Matt - Tue, 2012-05-08 23:35

Release here. Excerpt:

'Washington, DC/May 8, 2012 — States that enacted mandatory arrest policies saw a 60 percent increase in intimate partner homicides, according to a Harvard U. study. Now, Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) is calling on lawmakers involved in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to halt funding for such lethal policies.

Beginning in 1994, VAWA pushed states to change their domestic violence arrest standards from probable cause to the more aggressive mandatory arrest policy. Under mandatory arrest, the accused person is taken away in handcuffs if the police are called, even in the absence of evidence of physical violence.

VAWA’s 2005 reauthorization did away with the mandatory arrest language, but states continued to enforce these harmful policies. SAVE insists that the House of Representatives insert language in its version of VAWA that would stop taxpayer funding of arrest without probable cause.'

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mandatory arrest

daveinga - Wed, 2012-05-09 08:54

another way to destroy a man.

arrested for d.v. huh? no, we were looking for someone with different credentials to fill that position. sorry. maybe a woman, huh?

arrested for d.v., eh? no, i'm afraid you don't qualify for ....

w/o a scintilla of proof of anything men are stripped of their rights. if she falsely claims some sort of sexual abuse you could also wind up on the sex offenders registry. screwed you are then, for sure. easy to get onto, he!! to get off.

its no wonder they say femininists make such good socialists.

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