Police Domestic Violence

It can't be anti-cop to bring officer-involved family violence into the open. It's killing officers too. Things have to change.

FIRST THINGS FIRST:

It's dangerous to put any details of your situation or your identity on any internet site.
If you don't feel safe you need a plan.
Can your internet activities be tracked? Two links: 1 & 2

"As victim, your situation is very different."

For a list of some of

the more obvious

differences, go here.

(From Life Span)

If you are a sworn officer of the law

it is harder than folks realize

to decide to reach for help.

Something has to change:

The design of support services,

policy & procedures.

It shouldn't be a career risk

to be strong enough

to ask for back up

when you need it most.

Getting the information you need

is key to making the right decisions.

Police Family Violence Fact Sheet

from The National Center for Women and Policing

Abuse of Power - "Based on the professional experiences of domestic violence advocates and the personal accounts of survivors of police and firefighter domestic violence, Abuse Of Power provides a much needed resource for victims and advocates..."

More police dv information

Police dv news blog: Behind the Blue Wall

Email suggestions or questions

I PROMISED I WOULD NEVER FORGET AUSTIN

APD Cop kills son, then self
WALB
September 21, 2004

Albany - ...Albany Police Corporal Andrew Hayslip and his ex-girlfriend argued outside a Dougherty County Extended Day School building on South Monroe Street. Hayslip opened fire. He killed his young son and wounded the child's mother and then killed himself. Albany Police surrounded the old school building, rushing to a shooting. They discovered it was one of their own... Hayslip was a 15 year veteran of the force, but was arrested March 31, 2003 for domestic violence. He was charged with terroristic threats, Battery, and cruelty to children. Hayslip went through pre-trial intervention, and was allowed to continue working as a patrol officer...

"...Andrew and Austin Hayslip are dead now, but maybe something can be salvaged from two wasted lives. Maybe we can look closer at the people we care about, and see the things we may not want to see. Maybe someone can have the courage to stand up, to help someone they love get the help they need..."
(Source: Look closely at what's in the mirror, By Mark Passwaters of The Navasota Examiner on 9/29/04)

x <---Here is the spot

of my deleted poem

written after gazing for a long time

into the picture of Austin.

It turned into a prayer,

and became really private

between God and me.

I'm smiling & wiping the tears.

My mind has become a living memorial.

It's keeping everybody,

singularly and sacredly remembered,

celebrated and mourned.

Not sad.

More "holy."

Never heavier
than God's grace will allow,

or strengthen me,
to carry.

Their memory
and my outrage -

a soft
peace-of-God-inside-kind-of-outrage
and deliberate remembering of the loss -
has swollen my river
until
I can't fathom holding
any more love
than this.

Each time

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