Worse, rather than use funds from their own budget, police departments request funds From DOJ for bullet-proof vests;so officers will be safer when answering calls; which may or may not include responding to calls from desperate women.

See: "LAW ENFORCEMENT" or "ARREST." Recent news:

...and when might reporters out "Anger Management Classes" run by non-profits serve to buy a paycheck for the top management running them?

San Francisco Anger Management Programs Don't Work. However, there is no shortage of these "non-profits" meaning the individual doesn't profit from their services, in any city and backed by any politician.

Man on the way to Anger Management Class Attacks Woman

Wouldn't it be nice if women could get This kind of security?

So domestic violence programs continue for the funding source they are, mostly without family court litigants being aware, how vested state and city officials are in micro-managing lives, to the point the victim is threatened with jail if she won't testify.

Philadelphia's soft on crime and largely clueless District Attorney, Bruce Castor described one wife murder and cover-up as a "classic heat-of-passion killing."

Meanwhile, a Los Angeles husband and Millionaire got a life term for hiring a guy to kill his estranged wife.

For some men, the simple truth is murder seems more economically viable solution To Avoid paying Spousal or Child Support.

A medical examiner testified that Wanda Smith had 18 bullet wounds, Murray Smith Jr. had 29, and Joshua Harmon, was shot 23 times. No published reports identified the prosecutor who decided not to seek the death penalty was Natalie Adobe.

Could Sacramento cops been more stupid, or indifferent?
From the SacBee: "For the past week, while Sacramento police searched for Miguel Carranza in connection with the Nov. 8 double homicide of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend, he was already behind bars 103 miles away in Santa Rosa.

Authorities there, apparently thrown off by a plethora of aliases, took days to realize Carranza, a Mexican citizen, had already been identified as a person of interest in the shooting deaths of 29-year-old Martha Lopez-Pacheco and Jever Lopez, 32. Though the two victims shared the same last name, they were living together and were not related. The couple were gunned down 10 days ago in a Northgate Boulevard parking lot as Lopez-Pacheco was leaving her job at a beauty salon.

It's racism and women are dying because of police indifference, or outright contempt.

Though Lopez-Pacheco had applied for two restraining orders against Carranza, police had yet to arrest him, even though her allegations suggested she feared for her life.

Instead of helping me...

The latest on MURDER - SUICIDE

Murder at Home: Heads up California. Eighty percent of California women murdered were murdered by their "intimate partners."

Bang. You're dead.

New studies about Murder - Suicide: Men were the murderers in 90.4 percent of the cases cited.

Also, the police mind set is to discount murders against women; Or, sometimes commit them. See Bad Cop

Ex-principal gets death penalty.

Murdered with A Restraining Order in Her Pocket.

William Gregory charged with murdering Skyler Meekins and Daniel Dyer.

And it's the PUBLIC that continues to hurt these children. Good Will - Not.

Tape recorder lands man in jail. When Taping a Child Custody discussion it's best not to smack the person being taped with the recorder.

Family murders are quite common; and almost religiously reported in such a way to guarantee women and children remain absolutely unaware how deadly it is to be the wife and child of a disgruntled husband.

Formula media reporting is to quote neighbors saying "We never suspected," or "we've knew it would happen," and move on.

As these murders are frequently "breaking news" the creator of this site began writing to Tom Curley, CEO of AP some seven years ago, requesting the formula for covering these murders evolve from the formula. It was suggested comments from neighbors be replaced with hard numbers from each state, along with a reminder to readers of the general ineffectiveness of "restraining orders."

In seven years Tom Curley, nor anyone from AP has not once responded.

Meanwhile, the rate of family murders, climbs.

This site also exposes the con of domestic violence - (why media won't report how the police benefit remains a mystery.

But the damage continues. Virginia Tech and police officials describing the first two murders Committed by Cho Seung-Hui as a "domestic issue" is a public relations effort to mitigate bureaucratic bungling by police and university officials in preventing the slaughter of thirty plus innocent people.

Yet police departments nationally, both discount yet profit equipment wise, after murders discounted as "domestic violence."

How? Consider this:

In 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Castle Rock vs. Gonzales, (father killed his three daughters, police didn't respond to calls from their mother to enforce the restraining order), that police departments are not Legally Required to respond to calls from desperate women requesting restraining order enforcement. (Supreme Court decision is to the left.)

So why do the police always counsel women to apply for them?

Because doing so creates the appearance of serving the community. Police officers use them for marketing purposes.

Instead of using their own funds, through our nation's newest quasi-governmental agency, Family Justice Centers Scroll to the bottom of the the page to see how, like zits on a teenagers face, these private, non-profits are quasi-governmental agencies, are popping up throughout the country.

A word about the original.

The country's first "award winning" Family Just Center created by former San Diego City Attorney, Casey Gwinn has its own problems. Domestic Violence covered up at the Family Justice Center?

Unfortunately although these Family Justice Centers are revenue producers, media continues to cheerfully report each new opening with police and local officials smiling broadly, while the crime rate continues to climb.

Then using numbers from various Family Justice Centers; police departments throughout the nation are applying for grants to purchase bullet-proof vests, so police personnel will be safer for the calls they Choose to respond...which may or may not include calls from women for restraining order enforcement.

Further, In wholly deceptive PR wording, some of the grants are funneled through the Office on Violence against Women.

A quick check of these grants reveal, Women themselves receive very little.

(Please note although grants for bullet-proof vests are in "formula" amounts, any assistance Women might receive is in "discretionary" amounts.)

What else?

In San Diego last year roughly five million dollars of federal funding was spent to help women out of domestic violence situations. Except nearly 4.7 million of it went to police departments and Border Patrol.

So remember: if you hear "domestic violence" instead of murder...there's a non-profit looking to gig up with the local police.

Thinking about filing for a divorce? Then know this: Doing so could be a safety risk.

Made a Restraining Order Application Did You? Well - Bang. You're still Dead. Sometimes, Execution Style.

No matter what you call it; it's still Misogyny and the police are of little help. Lawyer Perry March sentenced to 56 years for wife's murder.

How city government made "domestic violence" profitable for local police while the number of women killed continues to climb.

First reporters began describing assault and murder, as "Domestic Violence." Think crime-lite.

How did domestic violence turn profitable for the police while the number of women killed grows? Turns out it's all about making the Police safer.

Thus, the police are now better equipped to answer calls of their choosing, which may not include calls for help made by desperate women; and mainstream press never reports substantively on this subject, or

that the Supreme Court in Gonzales vs. Castle Rock Police Department, backs the police in choosing not to respond to violations of restraining orders.

Therefore, thanks to DOJ's Office on Violence Against Women, police officers are now safer and better equipped with bullet-proof vests, but desperate women calling for help remain unaware the U.S. Supreme Court opined the police legally aren't required to respond to their requests for restraining order enforcement.

More examples.

ABA Study Shows Minority Female Lawyers Being Excluded and Harassed
It's about Misogyny, Stupid

Eighteen calls, no police response.

Rethinking Restraining Orders

Man ordered to domestic violence counseling; kills pregnant girlfriend, baby, and two daughters.

Last month she's arrested for domestic violence. This month radio star charged with her murder.

And click to a sampling of children killed by their parents, listed alphabetically, by state.

As in the case of former South Dakota fire captain Jerry Black in the murder-suicide of his wife and self, these three day stories are almost deliberately ignored. In-depth substantive reporting simply doesn't exist.

See below for how many times calls to police went unanswered.

Indiana: In October of 1994, after Tommy Ross shot and killed his ex-wife, Paula, outside a Gaston elementary school after she dropped off their daughter, it was revealed the police were of no help at all.

A subsequent lawsuit filed by the victim's family showed that Paula Ross had complained to Gaston police 17 times in 103 days that her estranged husband was harassing and stalking her.

Then-Marshal Ray Gillespie often interceded on behalf of Tommy Ross during the disputes, the jury decided before awarding, in June 1999, a total of $1.75 million to the victim's parents and children.

The Gaston case is not so unusual.

A Typical Example.

Media Protecting Bad Judges.

What traditional press Continually refuses to report was best demonstrated in the Evan Nash case. Demanding restraining order when No Threat Was Made Can lead to Murder - But Subsequent Media Coverage Is Minus the Name of the Judge Who Issued the Order.

Never mind the AP story which discovered after one non-profit spent Forty-two million dollars over an Eight year program in Four cities, studying child abuse prevention programs; that they didn't work. Whether they worked or not immaterial. What mattered was the folks at the non-profit getting paid.

Unfortunately not only is this not common knowledge, missing from most mainstream news reports about murder is that Anger Management and other state and federal programs exhibit NO demonstratable history of success Except as funding sources for those who create various anger management programs. Ask Mrs. Tom DeLay who runs the DeLay Foundation.

The headlines are all the same, the facts show a carnage of sorts, yet the reporting such as The Orange County Register's never seems to get to the crux of the matter. Namely, government has made these killings a beneficial tool for police equipment.

Typically, because government subsidizes rather than solves problems, also unreported is judges well aware programs don't work, 'sentencing' criminals to government backed 'anger management' programs. And then they position themselves Not to be held accountable.

The most dangerous time of all? Near the end. Father kills ex-wife, three kids and self."

This is why murder is referred to as "Domestic Violence." Nothing can be changed until it's accurately described. We remain, though, happy cold cases are being Solved. "Disbarred attorney arrested in murder of headless, handless, ex-girlfriend."

When Congressmen accused of beating their mistresses receive large campaign, re-election dollars you know Domestic violence programs exist to line the pockets of administrators, rather than end crime. Not that domestic violence is called a crime. Please notice when you call something other than it is, substituting "Domestic violence" for "attempted murder, assault or battery" the goalis de-criminalization.

A judge's Mistake? This is a national problem, although the dismissive actions by judges are often headline pr'd as "mistakes."

A typical example of an editorial policy that doesn't make it, is The San Francisco Chronicle's coverage (?) But editors abound who seem to have absolutely No clue just how often grisly murder-suicides happen - complete with "shocking surprise." No matter how true and grisly these brutal murders continue to be; they are Two-day only, stories at best. The formula is repeated throughout the nation, except that the names of the Judges involved, Seldom see ink.

Too little too late? Oops. Maybe I shouldn't have killed her.

Seldom reported is how dangerous it is to apply for a restraining order. Man charged with murdering kids the day after he's served with a restraining order.

Reporters continue failing to report that some men won't consider a divorce, and plot the murder of their wives, including when they are already sitting in Jail, on attempted murder charges.

In the category of, why aren't visitation exchanges Made in police parking lots, where cameras are already installed, Mother and Grandmother shot in visitation parking lot.

San Diego's "Family Justice Center" being another example of feeding at the public trough. Susan Griffin headed the city's Visitation program; while paying restitution to the County for not being able to account for grant payments. Later she was fined by the State agency governing psychologists, for practicing psychology without a license.

Prior to that, Griffin charged people for counseling; albeit without, The Necessary Degree.

People outside San Diego might be surprised to learn, Griffin went to work with the City AFTER being exposed by San Diego Magazine. Hannah's House to Partner with city but that was before Dick Murphy was named one of the three worst mayors in the Nation by Time Magazine, the billion dollar pension underfunding; and trial of two city council members for extortion.

Most recently, the Secretary of State suspended Griffin's corporation for the first three and a half months of 2005. But the San Diego Tribune, immersed in the pension scandal, and won't be covering this. Money matters matter in San Diego. Children matter only when it comes to various "non-profits" grant applications.

However, San Diego is Exhibit A in the value of petitioning the federal government for dollars to "address domestic violence" Leave it to the state to figure out how to profit from murder.

We're also aware empirical evidence continues demonstrating the issuance of a restraining order often triggers one last, fatal attack.

North Carolina Stats: In-depth report on Who's killing who, -- and getting away with it

New Jersey Judge, Salem V. Ahto demonstrated, those convicted frequently, Kill two women for the price of one

It continues.

Russellville, Arkansas, provided a great demonsrtation why the Supreme Court needed to squarely address the issues in Castle Rock vs. Gonzales.

Extra caution is needed as Pope County Deputy Prosecutor, Jeff Phillips of Russellville, Arkansas, and Judge Don Borune, made abundantly clear; they do not care much for protecting crime victims.

ADA Phillips demonstrated women and children are not afforded the Constitutional right to be safe. Phillips asked for and quickly received a low bail, after Mr. Danny Mewborn rammed his wife's car, (carrying their two children) off the road and into a ditch. (Being a southern newspaper, the women and children weren't considered important enough to actually be Named in the article, and the assault with a 2,500 pound vehicle was described by the Courier News as a, "Collision."

Phillips request was immediately granted by Judge Don Bourne, who probably cheerfully quipped, "Hey good buddy, just don't do it again, ya hear?"

Mewborn posted the measly three hundred plus, and bounced out of jail the next day.
Update: Mewborn.
On Feb. 21, 2006, we were contacted by Danny "Mewling" Mewborn, who in three emails, complained we violated his privacy. (We think the booking sheet and mug shot probably did that). Master Mewler went on to say he wasn't responsible, it was all his ex-wife's fault, (their divorce was final in January), and that everything was now all settled. We're thinking the former Mrs. Mewborn probably feels born again.

The carnage continues. On July 2, Indiana Man charged with murdering his estranged, eight-month-pregnant, wife and child, was told by Lake Superior Court Judge Thomas Stefaniak he could post Twenty Thousand Dollars, bail.

LOUISANA: Meanwhile, the family carnage, Continues .

Mainstream newspaper seldom report on false imprisonment; and refer to murders as "domestic violence incidents."

It's assault, attempted murder, and murder; and could more accurately be described as domestic terrorism. Florida Woman Killed Within Hours of Changing the Locks

As news organizations don't assign beat reporters to family court, the Internet is the only vehicle focusing on domestic violence as a profit source.

While getting killed at the courthouse is something California Supreme Court Judges opined was not the Court's fault, on June 19, 2002, the County of Sonoma agreed to pay a million dollars to the children of one woman, whose calls to Sonoma County police for help; were resolutely ignored.

Both The New York Times and the Washington Post reported the practice of misogyny in the courts, after New York police executed a warrant, at a woman's shelter. The Court found serving a woman at a shelter, violated her privacy rights.

In rethinking the function of a "shelter" as it relates to bias; the focus is on moving the victim; rather than arresting the suspect.

Instead of addressing issues; domestic violence, has become big, Business.

Department of Justice reports Who's killing who

Abusers/Batterers who are criminally liable for their violence, nonetheless are getting sole or joint custody in approximately 70% of challenged custody cases. --According to the American Judges Foundation, Domestic Violence and the Courtroom: Understanding the Problem, Knowing the Victim.

If that doesn't get your attention, check out what happens when women report Rape.

Newest stats from the government.

More on, Women killed by Men

and Trends in Men Killing Women

"Anger Management" classes instead of Jail..

If a stranger harms an individual, they are arrested for assault. If an "intimate" hits someone, they are then given another opportunity to kill.

Part of the reason for this, is police reaction to seeing their own crimes within their own families. (See the Bad Cops section)

"Domestic Violence" reports demonstrate well over half of women killed or injured receive their injuries or death sentence from the hands of, what the government calls, "intimates."

Simply put, the vulnerable are expendable. The practice of detouring criminals, and their crimes, continues.

In 1990 there were 1,500 shelters for battered women in the United States. Today there are many more, but not as many as the 3,800 animal shelters now active.

Regular readers know Scott Peterson wasn't the first man to opt for murder over divorce; only traditional media seems not have made the connection. Still, some are more gruesome than others.

(If the number of crimes committed against women and children were reported as SARS numbers; the headlines would be "Epidemic." Still, crimes against women are treated as crime lite.)

Modesto Father Found Guilty of Murdering his NINE children.

The Los Angeles Times reports, in the last 35 years, at least 11 local and federal judges in the U.S. have been slain, often by people who were upset at their rulings. These individuals are portrayed by mainstream press as "out there" and most of the cases nvolved family disputes � child custody, divorce and domestic violence.

However, scant attention is paid to judges who flip. Such as the LA Judge who threatened to kill the man who had been involved with his daughter. The man sought, and received a Restraining order from the judge. (See the LA section of this site.)

Overall, the media abandoned it's "watchdog" role when it comes to examining the dynamics of family court. As such, the general public remains unaware how dangerous it is for women ending relationships or women requesting restraining orders.

We don't recommend applying for restraining orders, until there is adequate assurance they will be enforced...and even then, urge caution. Georgia Woman Shot By Estranged Husband.

Two Dead at Texas Courthouse Shoot Out

Georgia Father Murders All His Kids

Boyfriends and Child Abuse

Three short words on domestic violence.

It doesn't exist.

There's no such thing. What exists, however, is the Opportunity for government officials to obtain state and federal funding, to "address" the issue.

When it comes physical blows, no woman claims she's a victim of domestic violence. She will however, say,

"He tried to kill me!" Or, "He beat me up." Check the See Homicide Numbers.. They all add up to, bad.

According to a 2001 study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, approximately 20 percent of Maryland women who died during pregnancy, were murdered.

And it continues. Moving along, Government Stats indicate females killed by intimates increased

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, only half of all domestic violence incidents are reported to the police.

In nearly 20 percent of these cases, women did not report the incident because they feared reprisal by the perpetrator. Between 1997 and 2001, there were 184 domestic-violence-related homicides in Washington State, according to the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence. The majority of these were women killed by their current or former husbands or boyfriends.

This also includes the workplace.

Since 1980, job-related violence has been the leading cause of death in the workplace for women. In 1996 34% of fatal injuries among women were homicides. Seventeen percent of male fatalities were homicides. Women made up 8% of all worker fatalities, but 15% of all reported workplace homicides. Source: U.S. Department of Labor Spilling Over to the Workplace.. Few realize that "domestic violence," the cock-tail party phrase reporters use to describe everything from battery to murder, was coined by government officials anxious to detour the economically superior Away from the criminal justice system. Most don't realize the phrase is symbolic of, one, last, stay-out-of-jail, free card...as well as the phrasing prefacing a grant application for federal funding.

However, as long as reporters continue writing "domestic violence," instead of "murder," "attempted murder, " assault," know that media types consider crimes committed against family members, as crime-lite.

Unfortunately, federal grants to fund the cottage industry of programs "addressing" domestic violence, continue.

Because Mainstream media does not cover family court, the public remains largely unaware domestic violence is a huge, money maker.

Golden business opportunities abound. City officials and non-profits on the receiving end, well know is a long time running, federal gravy train to address "domestic violence."

This includes the newest money makers; Ka-Ching: Visitation Centers

We ask reporters retire the phrase, "domestic violence," it's also important to clarify to those using English as a second language, that "protective orders," do not protect, and "temporary restraining order," do not restrain.

It's worth noting a recent article in the Florida Bar Journal concerning abuse, reads in part�"Domestic violence does not erupt overnight�..It may proceed to verbal digression and/or economic deprivation to foster the victim's dependence on the perpetrator's good opinion or financial support. The perpetrator resorts to the imposition of increasingly severe repercussions against a victim who defy his 'right' to establish and maintain control over her life. The risk of murder increases when the perpetrator suspects that he is losing the control that he has painstakingly developed over the course of time."

Yet, legislators do not, and will not introduce, legislation to provide for stiffer penalties addressing crimes committed in the home. And seemingly, the public approves of judges who refuse to enforce existing laws.

Attorney charged in Wife's death

..and kill the kids too

..and lately, the kids are in the cross-hairs

For reasons not clear, the police not only refuse to address the problem,but create new ones by tossing it back to legislators. For reasons unclear, arresting a suspect on straight assault, battery, or attempted murder charges, and securing a High Bail for that individual, seems out of the question.

How the court devalue crime victims. Patricia Carbone

"I love you to death."

Her last words were,What are you doing here?

Some don't even make it to their car from the courthouse. Shannon Thomas died of massive head injuries. By the afternoon, her former common-law husband faced charges of fatally shooting her and her grandmother in the Moss Justice Center parking lot.

Why do most Judges refuse to make orders that protect the vulnerable? Two reasons, both bad. Most often judges are men. And the violent, are also the economcially superior.

What's seldom examined is police officers who are batters with badges, Sixty-six cases of Domestic Violence Not prosecuted by LA Police Department doctor, attorney, or fellow judge.

Robert Fisher News Flash

New rumblings in the Robert Fisher investigation should cause Scottsdale area residents some concern.

Enhanced photographs of Robert Fisher, include what Fisher might look like now...several years after Fisher, who vowed never to go through a divorce, became the only suspect in the murder of his wife and two children. Fisher is also suspected of blowing up their Scottsdale home.

A former Phoenix firefighter, Robert Fisher, made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List shortly after his family was discovered murdered in rubble of what had been their family home. Fisher has not been seen since. The FBI has authorized an award for Fisher's arrest of up to $100,000.00. Keep your eyes open because as Amercia's Most Wanted continues to prove; it's alert viewers who wind up providing law enforcement valuable tips which result in arrests. Click here for background on Robert Fisher's personality.

Sometimes, ...even when it's over, it's not over.

Consider the Harvard educated physician, who killed his wife in front of their children. Murdered just short of a month after applying for a Restraining Order"

Convicted in 2001

The Hit list

San Diego's (former)Superior Court Judge Gerald Cortes arrested for choking out his wife, and resisting arrest, huffed and puffed his innocence for months before pleading guilty to a crime that could have resulted in three years in jail. He got three years probation...and was close to being re-elected.

When attorney James Bottomely shot and killed the woman who had been steadfast, in her efforts to avoid him, the San Diego Union Tribune described it as a "lover's quarrel."

Then there's the police.

To wit: the fired Corning Iowa cop, who later ran for Mayor.
Mark Davenport, 41, was fired in 1999 when residents complained about his tactics and temper. He also was accused of harassing women and other inappropriate conduct. He'd previously been fired when, as a Polk County sheriff, admitted assaulting a mushroom hunter in central Iowa.

Whatever happened to Psych evals?

And so it seems a lot of federal funding, funds abuse. The biggest source being those socalled, "non-profits."

With millions being pumped from federal grants, the state are not about to stop the money flow....ergo, legislators, judges and public servants, are not about to fool around with that.

This of course, remains the largest part of the problem.

If family law was effective, Children's Protective Services wouldn't be necessary. But the business of government is business, and business is good.

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