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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

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When a member of the victim's family performs a violent act, it is considered domestic

violence. This includes your present and past spouses, immediate family, in-laws, and close

family friends. Domestic violence is used when there is a close relationship between the offender

and the victim. When experiencing domestic violence, Fear, anxiety, trouble sleeping, and other

negative emotions are possible difficulty concentrating, isolation, and a decline in self-assurance.

You might notice that you start acting differently alternatively if you're in an abusive

relationship, refraining from discussing certain subjects with the other person.

Domestic violence incidents can be hazardous for responding officers for several reasons,

including the fact that You are invading someone's personal space and giving a very public face

to a highly personal situation. Due to the conflict, they are engaged in, people's emotions are

already high, and now you bring the state's coercive power. People are angry and angry to see

you as the police, knowing there is a potential to be arrested and incapacitated. The victims

typically kill the cop in charge by shooting them. Furthermore, fifty feet or less from the culprit,

two out of every three police officers were shot. Victims of domestic violence rely on the judicial

system to uphold the criminality of violence against intimate partners.

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Because the perpetrator of the violence has lost control and frequently has little left to

lose in these circumstances, domestic violence calls result in more cops dying in the line of duty

than any other sort of call. Increased domestic violence calls for service may have negatively

influenced officers' health or negatively affected victims' perceptions of officers' reactions to

service calls. Additionally, during the COVID era, health measures were put in place to lessen

the likelihood that responding to domestic violence incidents would be difficult for both officers

and victims (Nix, J., T. N. 2021). While victims may be less likely to use emergency housing or

seek shelter with friends or family (Richards, T.2020), law enforcement personnel may calculate

arrests differently in an effort to avoid close interaction with the public and to decrease jail

occupancy.

In conclusion, officers should be educated on handling both victims because, in most

cases, you will find out that the abuser may have lost their temper and feels like he has nothing to

lose. However, the government should also try and educate the public on domestic violence and

its long and short-term effects.

REFERENCES
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Nix, J., & Richards, T. N. (2021). The immediate and long-term effects of COVID-19

stay-at-home orders on domestic violence calls for service across six US jurisdictions. Police

Practice and Research, 22(4), 1443-1451.

Richards, T. N., Gillespie, L. K., Kafonek, K., & Johnson, M. (2020). An examination of

the lethality assessment program (LAP): Perspectives on implementation, help-seeking, and

victim empowerment. Violence against women, 26(12-13), 1517-1537.