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Re:Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audi... by rickdale on Thursday January 28, 2016 @09:39AM (#10988367)
Helping a friend move to another city because he ended a relationship with a cop who made his life a living hell after they broke up.

I was dating this girl a couple of years ago and we were pretty early on, but she wanted to spend the night. And we were cool so it wasn't an awkward thing, but what I figured out as that she didn't necessarily want to stay the night as much as she was afraid to go home at night. Her reasoning, "My mom just broke up with a police officer and they harass us now." Shes from a super small town with a police force with a reputation for having nothing to do, but staying busy. But even when she said it I thought she might be being dramatic. Now I get it. This type of behavior is ridiculously childish and it might not be the norm, but it seems like something someone could stop.

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Re:Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audi... by jcromartie on Thursday January 28, 2016 @10:48AM (#10988843)
Police officers abuse their romantic partners at about twice the average rate. Domestic violence occurs in about 40% of households with police officers.
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Re:Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audi... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday January 28, 2016 @10:52AM (#10988865)
Note: those rates span a lifetime. It doesn't mean that every current relationship has a high rate of abuse.
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Re:Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audi... by jpambrun on Thursday January 28, 2016 @12:49PM (#10989803)
Whatever the temporal basis of comparaison, it kind of means that any relationship involving a cop is more likely to result in abuse. no?
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Re:Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audi... by WaxProlix on Thursday January 28, 2016 @01:10PM (#10989973)
Yes. But it doesn't mean that, given a random sampling of 100 cops in relationships, you could expect ~40 of those to be currently abusive of their partners.
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Re:Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audi... by jpambrun on Thursday January 28, 2016 @02:01PM (#10990373)
This is also what I initially understood. But still, it means that if I get 100 cops in a room, about 40 have been or will be in an abusive relationship. That is still very telling/surprising.
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Re:Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audi... by drdeca on Thursday January 28, 2016 @08:41PM (#10992924)
Does this also mean that of 100 randomly selected people (of whom an ordinary proportion are cops), that about 20 of them have been or will be in an abusive relationship?

I don't mean to downplay the 40 number in the police case (which is very high and kind of terrifying), but, 20% is still a lot! (and so, 40% is even more).

That's, for every 5, 1, on average! That is shockingly high.

wow?

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Re:Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audi... by meric on Thursday January 28, 2016 @09:43PM (#10993155)
Yelling is domestic violence. I think 20% is a bit low.
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Re:Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audi... by duaneb on Thursday January 28, 2016 @02:23PM (#10990512)
I mean at any point in time it's not likely any given person, even an abusive person, is actively doing something. It doesn't mean it's less of a problem.
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Re:Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audi... by johnhenry on Thursday January 28, 2016 @02:04PM (#10990386)
"Domestic violence occurs in about 40% of households with police officers"... I think that is what the above claim means.
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Re:Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audi... by microcolonel on Thursday January 28, 2016 @05:29PM (#10991950)
difference between "it occurs in 40% of said households" and "40% of officers are the sole abusers".
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Re:Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audi... by warfangle on Thursday January 28, 2016 @05:31PM (#10991964)
Abusers in relationships tend to be abusers in all of their relationships.
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Re:Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audi... by fredley on Thursday January 28, 2016 @10:52AM (#10988870)
Do you have a citation for this statistic?
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Re:Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audi... by jcromartie on Thursday January 28, 2016 @11:06AM (#10988950)
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Police-domestic-violen...
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Re:Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audi... by frandroid on Thursday January 28, 2016 @11:12AM (#10988990)
> ridiculously childish

"crmiminally abusive" comes more easily to my mind.

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