A program about domestic violence committed by law enforcement personnel.
According to the National Center for Women and Policing, forty percent of America's law enforcement officers have used violence against their domestic partners.
This new program featuring Mark Wynn, twenty-year veteran of the Nashville Police Department, describes the trauma experienced by female partners of officers, and emphasizes the need to adopt model policies establishing procedures for handling domestic violence committed by law enforcement. Survivors, who are themselves police officers, tell their powerful stories of being abused and their reluctance to talk about it. One survivor only realized she was being abused when she attended domestic violence seminars as part of her law enforcement training, and another describes being in full uniform with a squad car parked outside her home, and then being chased in her neighborhood by her ex-husband, also a police officer.
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