When you think of Kansas, what are your first thoughts, apart from the Wizard of Oz and "Thank God I don't live there?" It's flat, it's flyover country, it's pretty rural, and it is the only place where it is legal to beat your spouse.
Wait, I hear you shout, beating your wife is illegal everywhere! It is a crime, and a particularly nasty one! I agree, and according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, it is a rather popular pastime there, with 23,864 incidents reported in 2009, a rise of 11% on the previous year. Up until yesterday, the state agreed with us too. Yesterday, the mayor and council of Kansas' capital city voted to repeal the city's ordinance against domestic violence.
Why? Especially why do this during Domestic Violence Awareness month? Do the Mayor and council have something they'd rather not talk about? Did a preacher get busted for busting his wife in the face? Are they incredibly retarded with zero sense of irony?
No, the city is simply broke.
Kansas is a mandatory arrest state, meaning a responding officer to a domestic abuse report must arrest the person if there is evidence of a crime, like black eyes, bruises and sheer terror. He hits you, he gets busted and has to face the DA.
People under arrest have to be kept somewhere. Topeka jails are full, with no money to expand them or build a new one. The county DA's budget has been slashed hard enough to make it impossible to prosecute misdemeanors committed inside the city limits.
Domestic abuse, and assault without a weapon are apparently considered on the same level as littering, and haven't been prosecuted for the past month. They are also considered a useful political football for making points in the budget game.
No one wins. Especially not the women (and men) who will wind up injured or possibly dead from this grandstanding. Is this acceptable?
I don't think so.
And, though I am usually loathe to do this, if you find this unacceptable, why not let the city council know how you feel.
Wait, I hear you shout, beating your wife is illegal everywhere! It is a crime, and a particularly nasty one! I agree, and according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, it is a rather popular pastime there, with 23,864 incidents reported in 2009, a rise of 11% on the previous year. Up until yesterday, the state agreed with us too. Yesterday, the mayor and council of Kansas' capital city voted to repeal the city's ordinance against domestic violence.
Why? Especially why do this during Domestic Violence Awareness month? Do the Mayor and council have something they'd rather not talk about? Did a preacher get busted for busting his wife in the face? Are they incredibly retarded with zero sense of irony?
No, the city is simply broke.
Kansas is a mandatory arrest state, meaning a responding officer to a domestic abuse report must arrest the person if there is evidence of a crime, like black eyes, bruises and sheer terror. He hits you, he gets busted and has to face the DA.
People under arrest have to be kept somewhere. Topeka jails are full, with no money to expand them or build a new one. The county DA's budget has been slashed hard enough to make it impossible to prosecute misdemeanors committed inside the city limits.
Domestic abuse, and assault without a weapon are apparently considered on the same level as littering, and haven't been prosecuted for the past month. They are also considered a useful political football for making points in the budget game.
No one wins. Especially not the women (and men) who will wind up injured or possibly dead from this grandstanding. Is this acceptable?
I don't think so.
And, though I am usually loathe to do this, if you find this unacceptable, why not let the city council know how you feel.
Instead of decriminalizing drugs they decriminalize violence against women.
Yeah, that makes so much sense.
And yet the republtards still don't favor raising taxes. This is insanity.
And interestingly enough, most people who minimize or dismiss domestic violence or are apologists for the abusers tend to be republicans themselves.
Stubborness about raising taxes brought down the Song Dynasty of China; they continued to refuse to raise taxes even when foreign invaders were crossing their borders.
There are ways to save money if they thing outside the box. You can take the waste from prisoner’s food & creating E85 energy to cut cost. You can also make incarcerated individuals work in lieu of housing. Nonviolent individuals can do work as part of probation. Cutting grass on municipal properties as well as their janitorial services are a few things that come to mind.
No one should get a free ride & be able to sit on their @$$ on the tax payers dollar if they have been convicted of ANY crime. Only in America can you go to jail for stealing cable & get it for free when you get there.
that's messed