Does this incident show the lack of protection victims of domestic violence get?
There have been many occurrences when a woman of domestic violence ends up coming to a fate worse than death because of domestic violence not taken seriously enough by the police. One such incident was Tina Nash, who is now blind due to domestic violence. This could have been avoided!
The severity of a domestic incident determines how it is dealt with by the police. We look at the photo above and they are a wealthy couple, in a upmarket restaurant and if she does not claim to any wrong doing (dictated from her choice of silence) then why should the police take it seriously?
Domestic violence does not just happen to women, but men can face the same, we just have to go back to Rebecca Brooks and Ross Kemp. There are many cases of men having to face domestic violence, but it less likely to be reported due to the possible ridicule. Men are just as likely to face domestic violence as women, but can just, if not more, embarrassing to report.
One misleading statistic, which is often repeated, is that - while one in four women experience domestic violence - so do one in six men. These figures are, however, based on single incidents, of a criminal nature, and without regard to:severity of violence whether or not it was repeated - and if so, how often the complex pattern of overlapping abuse of various kinds the context in which it took place.
They also exclude sexual assaults - which are overwhelmingly perpetrated against women, by men - many of whom are partners or former partners of the victims. Finally, emotional abuse - which is often not regarded as a crime, but which survivors often find even more destructive - is excluded from these statistics.
The ignorance surrounding domestic abuse whether it be against a woman or a man, should be taken for what it is violence. All violence regardless of who the victim is, should be dealt with in the same manner of a stranger attack.
