“When the domestic violence stuff came into effect, I could actually see how it made everything more clear,” he says. “It channeled things as to what was going on.” Domestic violence trainings and awareness in the early 2000s began to give police officers a context for why and how abusers were violent, the particular ways that abusers manipulate, how police sometimes re-traumatized the victims, why victims sometimes appeared to want to stay in these abusive relationships.
