Cops Accidentally Record Themselves Insulting Domestic Violence Survivor Who Called For Help

I'd have sold that recording to the newspapers after being told again it was just banter. That's not banter, those people should not have a badge and uniform.

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"Where do schoolyard bullies get jobs?" "They become police."

Everytime I read some incel comment about 'if it were real she would've reported it', I can link back to things like this. This is the why

My dad was an abusive alcoholic, strangled children, and was also a rapist. When my mom was finally able to take us and run away, she just went to the next town. The local RCMP officers would pull her over and harass her and us. They made vague threats and intimidated her and refused to use her maiden name even after she was granted a divorce, changed it, and got a new license. "Hello Mrs (married name). Seems you're having some issues with your tail lights. Perhaps that's something your husband could take care of for you. Sure would be a shame if we had to fine you for it. It would probably be nice for him to help and see the children he made." They would pull her over for speeding even though she didn't, make up problems with the car, and generally leer at us and try to intimidate the s**t out of us. This was before 911 existed in our area, so when we called the police the nights my dad was at his worst, they wouldn't send a car. They weren't his friends or anything, they were just fellow white men from the same church.

Ah yes, QLD police. The same force that gave a man his ex-partner's new address after she'd left him due to DV. The same force that had a data breach where that same thing happened to several people, one of whom was told to "move house".

"This batch is gonna...?? Seriously, how can any woman believe they are being heard if this is the value placed on them speaking up and making a report, its abominable on every level.

PD lied through their teeth about her saying she was satisfied.

Across the US, there are a disturbing number of police officers with DV allegations against them who are still active duty with their guns, that they take home every night. Who do you turn to if the police you call for help could be/are also abusers?

There needs to be more Olivia Bensons in the world.

The police in my state have never truly moved on from the Fiztgerald Inquiry, where massive corruption and vile behaviours were exposed in the aftermath of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen's dark reign as Premier. They're just as racist, misogynistic and homophobic as they were then, they're just occasionally better at hiding it.

They are probably part of the problem: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-07/police-force-domestic-violence-serving-officers-homicide-truth/103526170

He was right! He thought he'd get a complaint about not being professional and look! he did! And if they didn't bother to fingerprint, check whether neighbours saw anything or have security cameras, then yes, the police failed to investigate. Why? Because they still don't take womens safety seriously when the threat is a current or former partner.

It is a boy's club and they circle jerk each other to the lowest of lows. It is a group of maladjusted wanna-be's who lack grace and decorum, like a locker room full of middle school boys. I have heard cops think that a woman deserves to get smacked around for "some of their behavior" and they feel perfectly entitled and somehow authoritative about such statements. If it weren't for newer laws in the US where someone HAS to leave the home following a domestic call, the number of murders would be tripled. Cops would tell the batterer to cool down and wait until the wife wasn't so hysterical, and then berate the woman for causing the man to be embarrassed by all this. COPS need to be completely retrained. The old boys club mentality is disgusting.

Studies suggest anywhere between 4.8–40% of officer families experience domestic violence, with some sources estimating officers are four times more likely to engage in domestic violence than the general population (Gershon, Reference Gershon2000; Neidig et al., Reference Neidig, Russell and Seng1992; Russell & Pappas, Reference Russell and Pappas2018).

This is why social medis exists. She should have released the recording to every media platform she can find. Disgusting behaviour than needs to be aired for all to see just how rotten these institutions are.

Great. Now it's not just American cops who are d***s, but Australian ones as well.

I genuinely believe she has something, and should 100% keep sharing it with the rest of us. Their behavior was unacceptable. Locker room behavior, office behavior, they are MALE police officers making fun of a female citizen after being attacked. Even if she had called about a non emergency issue, their responses would have been deemed inappropriate.

Well that didn’t have a satisfying ending, could she not have escalated it to higher up? So frustrating

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Were the cops unprofessional? Yes. But I don't think it goes beyond that. Sounds like she called them then whined because they were inside her house trying to get a report, making them step outside. Which is likely the reason behind the banter making fun of her being a b*tch. Anyone who works with the public is going to sh*t talk some of the customers/clients/patients to their coworkers at some point.