An article from a newspaper in the UK is extolling the virtues of using GPS devices to protect women from their abusers, at the holiday season. It has been proven that the number of attacks increase around the holidays, so the police have devised this system to try and protect some of the known victims of repeated domestic violence.
Now this sounds all well and good, but I have some questions on the subject:
- Why are the abusers not in jail if they have abused their spouses repeatedly?
- How far away is the closest police car when the panic button is pushed?
- Who will protect the lady when the husband is released?
- And most of all, what happens after the holidays are over?
I am not saying it is not a good idea; at least they are making an attempt to stop the violence. Read More