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Originally posted by Kimmie1913
Another big challenge is the truly crazy abuser who will stop at nothing. The law punishes bad behavior far more than it deters it. Too often you see abusers who have been arrested and even convicted violate restraining orders and do whatever it takes to kill the abused. Far too often they will not stop for anything.
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It's hard to have an answer for people like that. If you go to the extreme and permenantly imprison all people that are involved in domestic violence, not only would you add to overcrowded prisons, you'd also end up imprisoning a lot of people that could be rehabilitated through therapy.
It's also a problem that VPO's are OFTEN abused by people (often women in my experience). I work in family law. We have two clients that have had 5 VPO's filed against them -- in both cases these VPO's were dismissed because of the fact that our clients had documentation placing them elsewhere (one was out of state and even had a plane ticket stub to prove it.
The problem with all of it is that people cry wolf so often that courts and the police can't tell what's real and what isn't.