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Love the poster! Insert "And

AmericanDreamer — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:13:47 +0000

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Love the poster!

Insert "And we're in a grumpy mood." after "....woke up"?

I love the poster too! I read

Richard Day — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:04:33 +0000

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I love the poster too!

I read the Topeka link and I do not understand the course being taken at all!

Coincidentally I read something over the week end about husband beaters and husband killers. ha

Hit the guy over the head with a frying pan while he sleeps.

But refusing to responds to a report about a wife beater?

Just let them kill each other?

Not my biz?

Ironically, over half the spouse beatings relate to drug use which I thought was supposed to be a priority for the law and order folks.

And of course the threat to the safety of children with warring parents is supposed to be of concern to the Family Council folks.

Of course we don't prosecute the theft of billions by millionaires.

This is such a strange development.

I ran across a trick like

Donal — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:13:00 +0000

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I ran across a trick like that a while back. “Ashtabula County Common Pleas Judge Alfred Mackey was asked what residents should do to protect themselves and their families with the severe cutback in law enforcement. ‘Arm themselves,’ the judge said.”

There were cutbacks, but mostly in sheriffs not in patrol officers.

Interesting way of putting

Ramona — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:38:38 +0000

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Interesting way of putting it, Arc. Too sad.

A Topeka update: The County Prosecutor has decided to try the cases after all, but it looks like a trick to get the press and all of us off their backs:

[I]t’s a dark irony that Topeka’s new time in the international limelight comes during Domestic Violence Awareness Month. “Now Topeka is known as the domestic violence capital of the world,” Kansas NOW’s Rinker said.

Whether the county prosecutor’s announcement that it is resuming prosecutions will fix the problem remains to be seen; the prosecutor’s office is expected to lay off almost a fifth of its staff by the end of the year, which could impact the prosecution of domestic violence cases that the office just resumed prosecuting.

“Even on a good day, it doesn’t work,” Dombrowski said of Topeka’s handling of domestic abuse victims. “And now it’s even worse.”

I heard the terrible news

arc400 — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:50:18 +0000

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I heard the terrible news about Topeka a few days ago. Thanks for bringing it to light so more people are aware.

I'm reminded of the 8 desolate years I spent working in Western Massachusetts, just long enough to get called for jury duty in my final year. I was supposed to call in that day to see if there were cases pending. It was well-known that the only action the local court ever saw were domestic abuse cases. (Likewise, the police had little to do but pull over migrant workers who took the risk of driving.)

I was relieved, on the frigid, blustery day of my jury date, that there was nothing on the docket. Another way of putting it was that no woman had been beaten up in the relevant time frame. Another reason to be grateful.