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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-02-06 12:34 PM
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13. "These guys are called upon to make judgment calls...."
That right there opens the door to the anti-woman bias and violation of equal protection.

This is all based on some fear that if police actually acted to protect women from domestic violence, they would be overwhelmed with calls - some more important than others. So their policy is "faith-based" - not knowing how serious the victim or perp was until after the fact.

What if police responded to other 911 calls like this? A kid goes missing and there are statewide Amber Alerts within an hour. A man in a car slows asks a kid for directions and there's a statewide APB. Usually it's nothing, but that doesn't stop the police from making their "judgement calls" in favor of the person reporting the crime.
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