Not surprisingly Kansas city officials have literally put a target on the back of women, in their idiotic move to decriminalize domestic violence in the city to save money. I never advocate violence, but the only people deserving of any in Topeka are those on the city council who would vote to do this. A self-defensive, preemptive strike.
Topeka Kansas Considers Decriminalizing Domestic Violence
In Topeka, Kansas city officials are considering a controversial move to decriminalize domestic violence in the city after the Shawnee County government offloaded domestic violence enforcement on to city governments. Cities facing budget cuts and lost revenue are turning to many different cost-cutting measures, but this is perhaps the most extreme. Already, the county government has turned away at least 30 domestic violence cases.
Ironically, the age of austerity may provide an out for people who abuse their wives, girlfriends, and children, but if the federal government gets its way, decriminalized marijuana will become a thing of the past. Apparently putting taxdollars to work locking up pot smokers and hippies is more important than protecting battered women.
As Marie Diamond notes, the social and economic cost of domestic violence is very real. In cold, hard economic terms, studies have estimated that domestic violence has cost the US economy between approximately $6 and $13 billion a year. The cost of prosecuting these cases is only a small sliver of that sum. The community damage extends generations and can be crippling to the well-being of children into adulthood, perpetuating the cycle of violence from one generation to the next.
Most domestic violence cases go unreported. Decriminalizing domestic violence will simply push these cases further into the shadows. Considering that marital rape was legal in almost every state until 1976, perhaps this is simply an illustration of our society slipping backwards, toward the days when men had total domination over the wives. A return to various remnants of a feudalistic society is hardly surprising given the many anti-democratic policies we’ve seen in recent years (everything from torture to assassinating US ciizens to absurd redistricting policies and more.) Still, it is worrisome.
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