What book? Also, while it is probably true that there were sometimes inappropriate police responses to domestic violence in the past, that is not the general c

What book? Also, while it is probably true that there were sometimes inappropriate police responses to domestic violence in the past, that is not the general case of a woman screaming for help in a public place from a strange man. Even so, the story you're talking about sounds very unusual. Also note that the honest research since the 1970s shows that domestic violence is two-way, and that women initiate the majority of violence. Reference: Thirty Years Denying the Evidence on Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence, Murray Strauss, University of New Hampshire. Summarizes results from 200 studies. Around the same time, 1970s, Erin Pizzey, creator of the first womens' shelters in the UK, observed (as she wrote in her book) that many of the women that came to her for shelter were as violent or more violent than the men they were escaping from.