2596 - Officer-Involved Domestic Violence — An Omnipresent but Underreported Phenomenon that Needs to be Addressed Now | by Dylan Taylor-Lehman | Medium
Nevertheless, studies of the phenomenon found the number of officers who abuse their families in any given department to be no less than the national average of 10–15 percent, and possibly as high as 20–40 percent. The latter studies are now close to 30 years old, but experts are not optimistic much has changed. Departments are loathe to portray themselves in a negative light by acknowledging this abuse, and a code of silence prevents officers from speaking out against their colleagues and pu...
