Table 4: Plot of fifteen-year compilation of 911 calls and arrests for simple assault in Colorado Springs versus increase in population (data in Table 73).
As given in Table 73, and plotted in Table 4, for the years 1990-1994 there were between 11,000 and 15,000 calls for assistance in domestic disturbances each year, with between 900 and 1,100 arrests for simple assault. As shown in Table 70, domestic violence arrests are most commonly made for misdemeanor third-degree assault, included under simple assaults in Table 4. Simple assaults include arrests for other than domestic violence but are not broken apart in the available uniform crime reports. An unresolvable bias is thus introduced into the available data but a reasonable estimate would be that 33% to 50% of arrests for simple assault originate as a domestic dispute. That estimate is reinforced by the peak in such arrests evident in 1995 (Table 4), the year after the present mandatory arrest law in domestic violence cases was passed.
Arrests for other crimes than misdemeanor third-degree assault are made in domestic situations, e.g., aggravated assault, but the numbers are not statistically significant in the available data. For those readers interested in a further breakdown I suggest you see the annual reports of Crime In Colorado published by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Passage of the 1994 mandatory arrest law increased the arrest rate for simple assaults from 6%-9% of all domestic disturbance calls for the years 1990-1993 to 15%-18% for 1995. But since 1995 there has been a steady decline in arrests for simple assaults (Table 4). By 2004 the arrest rate is back to what it would have been simply due to population increase and the probability of a domestic disturbance call resulting in an arrest for domestic violence is now about 5-10%.
There are many possible explanations for such a low arrest rate when 911 is called. But a lifeline isn't much good if all the lifebuoys have already been thrown over the side by thousands of people shouting: “Man overboard!” and the people in the water are more afraid of being hit by the lifebuoy than they are of drowning.
Our conclusion is that the draconian domestic violence laws have had little or no long-term impact on arrests but the draconian persecution of those who do call 911 deters citizens from contacting the police.
Child protective services (CPS) will often put the kids in a foster home
Note: The term “redfems” is used as a synonym for neo-Marxist radical feminists as described by the essays here.
On March 8, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court prohibited the admission of out-of-court statements without the witness who made the statements appearing in person for cross examination if that witness were able and available. U.S. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in Crawford vs. Washington 124 S.Ct. 1354 (2004) that it “...i s fundamentally at odds with the right of confrontation,” as guaranteed in the Sixth Amendment to proceed in a criminal case where the complainant or witnesses were available but did not, or would not testify.
The Crawford v Washington ruling sent shock waves through the Domestic Violence Industry. No longer could alleged perpetrators be convicted without the opportunity to challenge the testimony of others, including the alleged victim.
This unconscionable practice, commonly known as evidence-based prosecution arguably protected few and resulted in untold thousands of falsely accused being wrongly restrained from their children, homes, and property. How many men were terminated from their employment, imprisoned, ordered into batterer intervention programs; or, worse, driven to murder and suicide before the Crawford vs. Washington decision will never be known.
In most crimes it is unusual for prosecution to proceed when an uncooperative victim wants to drop the charges. In domestic violence, however, such prosecutions are still the norm.
However, after the Crawford decision domestic violence industry-trained prosecutor's have changed their tactics and now abuse purported victims instead. Any woman who states she will refuse to testify is threatened with charges of obstruction of justice and told they will be put in jail for failure to testify against the accused.
It is generally considered a crime to threaten or intimidate witnesses but the rule of law does not generally apply in domestic violence cases when it conflicts with redfem ideology.
In an even more draconian tactic, prosecutors coerce victims into testifying by threatening to report them — for failure to protect their children — to Child Protective Services (CPS), a secretive enforcement agency that makes the domestic violence industry look like the greatest protector of civil liberties since our Founding Fathers. In the 21 st Century CPS has become little more than a legalized kidnapping ring and adoption agency looking for children to steal.
If children are present in the home, or if child abuse charges have been filed against the defendant, once domestic violence charges are filed CPS will usually be notified and investigate. That investigation will typically proceed even if charges are dismissed.
Thus, the odds that a man or woman's children will be seized are greatly exaggerated if domestic violence is reported.
Keep the peace, not concentration camps
As a direct result of these draconian laws, we have moved from a time when officers were called to restore the peace to a time when police act to haul citizens to gulags and destroy families, often on the basis of mere hearsay. As a result, Table 4 makes it painfully clear that couples are commonly more afraid of the police and social services than they are of their partner.
Clearly, what citizens want are peace officers to settle disputes, not Gestapo-like law enforcement that destroys their lives and takes their children.
Though a woman is hardly likely to be prosecuted for false reporting, making an unjustified nuclear attack on one's partner is very likely to end the relationship. It isn't likely the termination is going to be amicable or inexpensive either.
Use 911 if you really need it, but the odds are calling 911 isn't going to solve your immediate problem, and it may well make the situation worse. As with a nuclear attack, it is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) in most cases.
What happens if the police do make an arrest?
Based on FY 1997-1998 figures, 12,166 domestic violence cases were filed in Colorado state courts as a class 6 felony or lower. About 4,331 people were convicted, or 36% of those charged. The very large majority of those convicted pled guilty or no contest. Thus, an individual has a very substantial chance of winning if they take their case to trial.
Using the figures above, for 1997-1998 there were approximately 40,000 calls to 911 in Colorado concerning domestic violence. In response to these calls ~12,000 arrests were made, and ~4,300 people, mostly men, were convicted. There was thus about a 10% chance a call to 911 would result in a domestic violence conviction near the peak of this hysteria. Today it appears that, even with the reduced volume of domestic disturbance calls (Table 4), the chance of a 911 call resulting in a conviction is less than 5%.
If the person arrested can afford competent counsel, and takes the case to a jury trial, the odds of conviction after a 911 call are much less than 1%.
Conversely, we estimate that 80% to 90% of the time a call to 911 leads to an eventual breakup of the relationship within two years, if not sooner. Thus, between 20,000 and 36,000 intimate relationships likely end every year as a result of these calls. The results are broken homes, acrimony, heartbroken men, women, and, especially, children as a result of what may have been a reflexive moment of anger or panic.
As a guess, perhaps half of these 20,000 to 36,000 relationships might have survived if 911 had not been called. Estimates clearly show that about 80% of the couples involved in domestic violence cases want to stay together. Since probable cause is presently found for only about 5% of the calls, lets assume the 19,000 to 34,000 couples whose relationship could be saved come from the ~95% of the 911 calls that have no real basis. Lets further extrapolate by assuming that these couples have, on average, one child each. If our estimates are in the ballpark, we are looking at 57,000 to 102,000 individuals per year whose lives are wrecked by 911 calls (19,000 to 34,000 couples + one child per couple).
Lawyers, courts, and domestic violence and divorce industries thrive in these circumstances, but the individuals involved are emotionally and financially destroyed.
Mutually assured destruction is no saner in an intimate relationship than between nations.
Is a nuclear weapon really what is needed in a domestic argument?
Think before you dial 911!
Be certain in advance that the person you call the cops on is your enemy because it is a virtual certainty they will be after you make the call.
More than a decade of experience by the Equal Justice Foundation has shown that an individual in an intimate relationship, or if the other party is female, should only call 911 if the situation is life threatening, that is blood has been spilled or deadly weapons have been brandished.
In all other situations calling the cops is virtually certain to make a bad situation worse.
A hang up 911 call is just as bad as talking to the cops.
As of 2008 a 911 call is virtually certain to change your life for the worse and provide little or no help.
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