By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
June 18, 2013
The LAPD says they tried to protect a woman who was hunted down like a dog and murdered by her husband over the weekend. However, it seems the ‘protection’ consisted entirely of taking two police reports from her and advising her not to go back home. These are, I grant you, important, but I fail to see how they can be even remotely considered to be protective in nature.
Don't get me wrong. Restraining orders are a valuable tool. But they are not, in any reasonable meaning of the word, protection. If somebody is enough of an asshole that you need to get a restraining order, they are enough of an asshole that they will not obey the restraining order. Putting your faith in that order for protection of yourself or your children is utter folly. Putting your faith in the idea that the cops will be able to respond in time to actually save you is also utter folly.
When you get to the bottom line, protection means the ability to respond with force to a situation that threatens your personal safety.
The cops have since caught the suspect but that doesn't do the dead woman much good now. That is mostly what cops do - they respond to incidents. They rarely prevent them. That's the real world.
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