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Domestic Violence by Police Officers
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Domestic Violence by Police Officers (PDF)
Domestic violence policy and commentary by the International Association of Chiefs of Police. July 2003. 8 pages.
Domestic Violence: Best Practices for Law Enforcement Response (PDF)
A model policy under the Violence Against Women Act from the North Carolina Governor's Crime Commission Violence Against Women Committee. Includes 911 dispatch protocols and protocols for officers involved in domestic violence. January 1998. 38 pages.
The Impact Of Police-Perpetrated Domestic Violence (PDF). Diane Wetendorf. (An edited version is published in Domestic Violence by Police Officers. Donald C. Sheehan, Editor, Behavioral Sciences Unit, FBI Academy: Washington DC, 2000) 7 pages.
Police Domestic Violence: A Handbook for Victims. The Handbook was written by Diane Wetendorf and originally published by Life Span in 2000.
The Misuse of Police Powers in Officer Involved Domestic Violence (PDF). Victims of police officers typically report that advocates do not appreciate how different their situation is because the abuser is in law enforcement. It is disappointing and frustrating for a victim to have to educate the very people whom she had hoped would be able to inform her. To begin to alleviate this problem, advocates can familiarize themselves with aspects of police perpetrated abuse that place the police victim in a category of their own.
Police-Perpetrated Domestic Violence - NCWP Speech (PDF). Rather than customizing services for victims of police abusers, we need to expect that the departments have the integrity to hold their own police family members accountable for criminal behavior." (Presentation by Diane Wetendorf at the National Center for Women and Policing 1998 Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada.)
Domestic Violence And Police Officers As Abuser Or Victim by Richard L. Davis, Harvard University.
Cops Who Abuse Their Wives Rarely Pay the Price. Article by Ruth Teichroeb and Julie Davidow for the Seattle Post, Wednesday, July 23, 2003.
Police Family Violence Fact Sheet. From the National Center for Women and Policing. Excellent source of statistics and sources.
Deadly Secrets: Violence in the Police Family. By Lt. Lott, Field Operations Division, Turlock, California, Police Department. Published in the November 1995 issue of the Law Enforcement Bulletin.
Technical Assistance & Training Sources
Diane Wetendorf provides technical assistance to advocates, counselors, police officers and all other interested professionals about how to respond effectively in an individual case situation through the Battered Women's Justice Project. To contact Diane for technical assistance on officer-involved domestics, please call the Battered Women's Justice Project at 800-903-0111.
Richard Davis is a member of the International Honor Society of Historians and an instructor for Quincy College at Plymouth. He is the vice president of the Board of Directors for the Community Center for Non-Violence and the vice president of Family Nonviolence, Inc. He is the author of Domestic Violence: Facts and Fallacies (see left) by Praeger publishers and has written numerous articles for newspapers, journals, and magazines concerning the issue of domestic violence.
He may be reached at rldavis@post.harvard.edu.
