Police Culture

• Overview
• Training, Indoctrination
• The police "family"
• The brotherhood, Code of silence
• Institutional bias: Racism, sexism, misogyny
• Standards of conduct
• Police officials' attitudes
• Domestic violence policy & training
• Official misconduct
• Liability, Internal investigation
• Qualified immunity, Officer rights, Police unions

Abuse Tactics

• Overview
• Authoritative presence
• Isolation
• Verbal abuse
• Emotional abuse
• Surveillance
• Deception, Lying, Manipulation
• Interrogation
• Financial abuse
• Sexual abuse
• Physical violence
• Weapons, Death threats, Suicide
• Preemptive tactics, Setting you up

Your Options

• Overview
• Talking to friends, family
• Talking to professionals
• Counseling for yourself,
  Couple counseling, Batterer counseling
• Calling 911
• Seeking medical care
• Talking to police supervisors
• Internal investigation
• Contacting the media
• Getting a protection order
• Using the legal system, Prosecution
• Leaving the relationship
• Going to a shelter
• Changing your ID
• Divorce, separation
• Protecting your children
• Child abuse
• Child sexual abuse
• Custody
• Visitation
• What's next?

Special Focus

• Overview
• When female officers are victims
• Victims in the police profession
• Crossing the Threshold:
  Female Officers and PPDV
• Advocate Guide for Police Domestic Violence
• Effective legal representation

Resources

• Overview
• Victim Handbook
• Trump DOJ undermines progress
  addressing racial/gender bias in policing
• Confronting gender bias in policing
• Little progress addressing police domestic violence
• Abusive police officers working the system
• Who can stop police domestic violence?
• Misuse of police powers
• Developing police domestic violence policy
• Lessons learned from Tacoma:
  The problem of police domestic violence
• Impact of police domestic violence
• Police family secret
• Checklist: Annotated safety plan
• Checklist: Warning signs of abusive officers
• Checklist: How police domestic violence is different
• Police power & control wheel
• Hijacked by the Right:
  Battered Women in America's Culture War

About Us

• Diane Wetendorf