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This scenario shows how advocates and police can talk past each other in a crisis. The shelter worker is taught that the victim must decide for herself what she needs. Police officers just want to resolve the situation.
After securing the scene at a domestic violence scene, a police officer calls a battered woman’s shelter because the victim asks him to make the phone call. The shelter worker picks up the phone. Police officer: I have a woman here who needs a place to go? Advocate: What do you mean needs a place to go? Police officer: Her husband just beat her up, he went to jail, but she is afraid to stay here. Advocate: OK, I understand. Please let me talk to her. Police Officer: Why? Advocate: I need to see what she wants to do. Police Officer: Lady, she is beat up. She just wants me to bring her to you. Advocate: Ok. I hear what you are saying. Our protocol is that I must talk to the woman myself. The police officer hangs up.
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Jenkins, P.J., Davidson, B.P. (2001). What Do We Know about Domestic Violence?. In: Stopping Domestic Violence. Prevention in Practice Library. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1213-4_5
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