o sung wu,

Not detracting from their training and courage, but It helps that the woman in blue has a service pistol and a partner.

I have heard reports of the threatening behaviour, taunts and attempted jostling and corralling (leading to more intimidating behaviour and actual harm if not stopped immediately) used by the thugs, male and female, in the houses&'burbs that require regular police attendances.

I imagine that their authority has some shock, 'pull your head in' value, but only with the non-seasoned criminal, youthful or adult and not with the drug or alcohol affected either. Police women are very useful where women offenders and victims are concerned, where they can be practical and are not emotional, easily led or jump to conclusions (most unlike their representation in TV police series and films!).

Sometimes, perhaps more often than not, categorising offending behaviour as 'domestic violence' (or road rage or etc) just masks a pattern of behaviours. -That really should be studied and dealt with simply as violence and antisocial behaviour - leave the gender politics out of it.

G'day there BANJO PATERSON...

Some interesting figures you've supplied us all with? Unfortunately, though a credible measure of the problem, what should we all do about it? A DPP bloke I know says he's now within sight of the Magistracy, which will up his pay, and hopefully lead him to higher positions on the duplicitous judicial pole.

He claimed he'd willing accept any appointment, in any jurisdiction, in either the city or the bush, but NEVER EVER family law. We've already had two murders of Family Law Justices, Justice OPAS and his wife and another who's name escapes me. My point being, Family Law is the most personally traumatic, poignant, and harrowing of all disciplines of legal practice, leaving in it's wake, a litany of broken men, women, children, and families. The like of which no other crime(s) can possibly compare.

What society badly needs are Solutions, to some of these intractable problems, many of which are undoubtedly the real catalysts for most Domestic Violence events. Figures that provide us with an accurate data of the size of the problem, is of course most useful, but it's solutions that are badly needed. Not just bigger and uglier coppers knocking on a front door, while Mum and Dad go at each other, with hammer and tongs, with the kids siting nearby, urging one of their parents to win the encounter!

For domestic violence to stop, two things have to happen.

1 Men need to know that DV is criminal and that society does not accept it.

2 Women need to know that they have the right to report DV to the police, and that not only will it be acted on, but that their community will support them and not the perpetrator.

The video that the two idiotic islamic women produced essentially showed men that it was OK to beat their wives, and women that the beatings were their fault, that they should accept this, and that the community would not support their complaints.

"Views are not set in concrete".

But they're very difficult to change when everyone you (are allowed to) know agrees with them, and outsiders are classified as "Satanic".

Who wants to even consider a viewpoint that's "Satanic"!

I grew up a Jehovah's Witness.
You could *not* think for yourself as they already had all the answers.

You were discouraged from even being friends with non-members, let alone discuss their (Satanic) views on life, the universe and everything.

It sounds like Islam (especially in expatriate minorities) has the same insular cult-like hold on people.

Dear Shocker,

I know of what you speak. I was raised as a Catholic.
And unless you answered the questions exactly as written
in the Cathecism - exactly, you got beaten with a cane
by Sister. Also friendships with non-Catholics were discouraged.
I remember the old joke of a nun going around the class and
asking the girls "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Everyone answered politely except for Mary who replied,
"A prostitute." Sister was shocked. "What did you say?" She
asked Mary carefully.
"A prostitute," Mary replied.
"Oh, Thank God, " laughed Sister. I thought you said,
"A Protestant."

Mr Thwackum, a character in Henry Fielding's novel, "Tom Jones,"
declares, "When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion;
and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion,
and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England."

Most people are like Mr Thwackum; when they mention religion, they
have their own in mind.

yeah meanwhile today in France and yesterday in USA ... Oh that's right we are to busy bashing the Catholics and Protestants (mostly for stuff supposedly done decades or centuries ago). Oh well it must be their fault that coppers and white people are being killed in Western countries almost daily by Islamist. Certainly makes the godless secularist feel smug.