Well, you're a cop, right? If the responsibility of law enforcement is to serve and protect, then why aren't they trained to spot domestic abuse? I mean, the average idiot from off the street could look at someone and tell if they're abused or not. The lack of eye contact when talking, the lip biting, the scared glances all around. Not to mention any fresh bruises they may see. If cops truly want to protect battered women from these scumbags, they should be specifically trained to spot the abuse, whether the victim talks or not.
Don't you have the right to search a vehicle or house on grounds of suspicion that it may have drugs in it? Then why can't the cops arrest a wife beater on suspected grounds of domestic abuse?
You don't know what you're writing about here.
I can spot, and believe what ever I observe, but it requires probable cause to seize a person, not suspicion or a gut feeling. The victim absolutely has to cooperate and make a statement.
No the police can not search a person, place, or thing; except for with a warrant, based upon probable cause, not mere suspicion. There are few exceptions allowing for government agents to search a vehicle or person without warrant, but it still requires probable cause, and it's when the vehicles or persons are found to be traversing a public place, like a highway.
Probable cause is: Facts that lead a REASONABLE PERSON to believe a crime has been, or is being committed.
It's reasonable person, not a; police officer, lawyer, judge, former abuse victim, psychologists, physician, trained abuse detector, news reporter, civil rights activists, CC member, or any other know it all.
Suspicion would be observations made by a police officer, that through his training and experience, would lead him to believe that a crime may be happening, and needs further investigation, which is what the cops are doing when they show up anyways. Terry v. Ohio was a supreme court case, that extended an authority upon police to detain someone for a REASONABLE amount of time, to investigate a crime, based on reasonable suspicion.
Actually it's not the responsibility of the police to protect or serve.....the supreme court has ruled on that a few times too. It's a slogan some departments like to put on the side of cars. The police function is to bring persons that are in violation of the law, before judicial authority, and what ever evidence of the violation that is found. Also what ever function the legislature puts on law enforcement, but that varies from state to state.
You're a know it all, you should get hired, attend the academy, and become a police instructor on domestic violence.
I'm sorry blue lady, Jennifer is going to have to call the police, cooperate, and make a statement. She can also not call the police, and go before a judicial officer to give testimony for a warrant, charging her husband.