Police Wife Quotes

“-Abuse at epidemic levels—An astonishing 40 percent of cops acknowledged in one U.S. survey that they were violent with their spouse or children in the previous six months. A second survey had remarkably similar results—40 percent of officers admitted there was violence in their relationship in the previous year. The cops’ abuse rate was up to 15 times that of the public. Younger officers, narcotics cops, those on the night shift and cops who were divorced or separated reported even higher rates of violence at home—up to 66 percent. Eight percent of cops reported “severe” violence—strangulation, beating up their spouse, using a knife or gun.-Discipline is startlingly lax—A U.S. study found that only”
― Alex Roslin, Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence