UK Police Data on DV - Women Abuse Too

Rob writes "An excellent illustration of DV stats by the London Metropolitan Police which debunks the myth of "male=offender, female=victim". The BBC article shows that in 25% of all cases investigated, the woman was the abuser.

Unfortunately, there is the usual mitigating statement about some women's violence:
"[some women's]..violence appeared to be defensive and in retaliation to the threat of or actual violence from the male partner."

Since every rational person could argue that "some" men would also have been "abusers" by this definition, and that these two groups of abusers should cancel each other out, then the fact remains that the police force in the UK's biggest city has found that 1 in 4 DV perpetrators it arrests/investigates are female!"

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