Wednesday, October 12, 2011

WTF Kansas?

So last night Topeka, Kansas decriminalized domestic violence. The county that Topeka resides in cut the police budget by 10% and in response the police are no longer going to prosecute misdemeanors, which include domestic violence abuse. This means that any misdemeanor has to be prosecuted at the city level, something the city council though was to costly, and so they just said screw it, we might legalize domestic violence. This is completely insane. Instead of doing doing something logical, like raising taxes, to fill their budget gap the city thought it might be a good idea to just out and out legalize hitting your wife. I honestly don't undertand the mental gymnastics that would have to happen for someone to consider this a good idea. If this were to happen it would set women's civil rights back over a hundred years. This is a complete and utter failure of government to protect the rights of its citizens and hope it never comes up for a vote because I'm scared of what the result could be.

2 comments:

  1. Wow, this is really ridiculous. I honestly don't even know what to say... I hope that people in Kansas and throughout the US protest and are able to change this and re-criminalize domestic violence. I know that the economy is bad but being stingy about something as serious as domestic violence is not only unacceptable but dangerous as well.

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  2. There seems to be a lot of uncertainty with how this is going to be handled. I can't imagine that domestic violence will continue to go unpunished once this becomes more of a public issue. My question in this situation is why can't they decriminalize some misdemeanors while continuing to prosecute others? I am sure there is some kind of legal boundary in the situation, but if the economic situation is as bad as they say it is they should be reconsidered.

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