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Not very different in the western world too. Canada has mandatory arrest policy if the wife or partner makes a domestic abuse allegation. But its bailable under
by S53Vflnr4n 6y ago
Not very different in the western world too. Canada has mandatory arrest policy if the wife or partner makes a domestic abuse allegation. But its bailable under strict conditions. There is no enquiry done by the police about the merits of allegation and always results in arrest on the spot. This sudden arrest traumatises the defendant, destroys his career, finances because the case wont be dropped even if no charges are pressed. The prosecution continues till guilty/not guilty. This is a very scary policy and makes men really question the idea of getting married, having kids or even to live with a partner under the same roof.
This system is skewed towards women and it has a very low conviction rate too. A waste of tax money. Courts are flooded with DV cases according to StatCan.
- lawlessquestion 6y agoas a criminal defense attorney I can attest to this. THere is a very sizable minority of those charged with domestic violence who's biggest crime is staying in a toxic relationship who knows how to abuse the system .
- paulryanrogers 6y agoSounds like an overly biased system. Yet I think it's clear why we can't have nice things: violent people exist and they hurt enough people that it's a common problem. And without hard evidence the system will naturally skew towards protecting the physically weaker partner.
- mola 6y agoWell, OTH, where I come from there's no such directive, and we routinly see cases where a wife gets killed even after police is involved and the husband comes back home. These women's life are OVER not ruined. And the physical reality of violence is heavily skewed towards males. Reality is complicated.