Victims are reluctant to report domestic violence, fearing retaliation, and police officers not only have access to guns, but they also know the law, and they have relationships with prosecutors, judges, administrators. A police officer’s partner knows, surely, that any call that comes through 911 will show up on the zone car computers of law enforcement across a jurisdiction, showing the address where the call originated, the name of the perpetrator, the incident being reported, and other information that can instantly alert an officer’s friends or colleagues. And even when it comes to
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