jillian
Princess
Diuretic said:jillian - where I am at least I'm happy to say that the police will arrest and charge the offender for dv. It wasn't that way for many years and to my shame I was part of that, "separate them into other rooms, talk them through it, keep the peace" policy. I did that.
I'm just glad now that when we are very quick to arrest and the person arrested and charged is given the help they need.
Well, you couldn't help the culture you were working in. It was that way in a lot of places. You know, "walk the guy around the block" type stuff.
I like when they're made to go for counseling and anger managment programs. Often, abusers saw that in their younger life, either by being a target of abuse or by seeing the way their father treated their mother. It's a really positive thing if sometimes the cycle can be broken.