Oh richard.....
Your bias .. or ignorance is showing again
You keep saying that you can't believe we would want "someone like Zimmerman on a neighborhood watch" ...
His restraining order was due to a domestic dispute in which BOTH he and his fiancee had restraining orders against each other. You are going to pre judge him based on this? Really?
Consider the following:
1.
Domestic violence is 2 to 4 times more common in police families than in the general population. In two separate studies, 40% of police officers self-report that they have used violence against their domestic partners within the last year.
Source 1 Source 2
2. Many of the qualities valued in on-duty police officers can make them dangerous domestic violence offenders. All abusers employ similar methods to control and abuse their intimate partners. Officers however, have skills and tactics not commonly possessed by civilians. Professional training in force, weapons, intimidation, interrogation and surveillance ? along with the cultural climate ? become a dangerous and potentially lethal combination in a domestic situation. Victims face the bias of law enforcement agencies and the legal system, psychological intimidation, and a high lethality risk.
~ Diane Wetendorf All Rights Reserved. (in Domestic Violence by Police Officers. Donald C. Sheehan (ed.) pp 375-382. Washington DC:
U.S. Department of Justice
So I guess we shouldn't want police officers on the neighborhood watches either....
3. The Defense Department doesn?t break down pre- and post-deployment figures, but the fact is that
rates of domestic violence in the military have been high for years?two to five times higher than among civilians, depending on which DoD study is consulted.
So I guess we shouldn't want retired military on the neighborhood watches either....
You seem to want to be the judge and jury over everyone .. even without having all the facts. That's an odd stance to take for someone in an industry as marginalized as ours.