Data Suggests 40 Percent of Cops Abuse Family

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[–]Fakenewsbot12 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The 40% statistic in this article is Apparently gotten from one part of a 'study' a sociologist called Leonor Johnson (She doesnt show up on google because shes a nobody) presented to the us house of reps select committie on children youth and families in 1991.

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED338997.pdf

These are her 'findings', if you read page 47, she defines abuse as 'verbal or physical assualt' aka yelling at your partner or kids

Shes a questionable professional from way back. I want to remind people any asshole can hand out surveys, create a narrative out of it, then book some time to present it to someone, then sites like yahoo create fake news out of wrong statisitcs.

[–]Zapped 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for posting this. I had always heard that the divorce rate for law enforcement was higher, too, but that seems to be an outdated study and it may even be lower than the national average. I can't find a recent study, though. A reason I would believe that domestic violence rate is slightly higher is the higher occurrence of PTSD while on the job affecting home life.

[–]Fakenewsbot12 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah i honestly wouldn't know anything about divorce rates, I just investigated that one study and found it to be bullshit. I would guess that any stressful profession would have higher rates of all negative factors relating to home-life.

Problem for me is I don't trust the media, and I would have to look into the studies of any of mainstream claim lol.