New York Police - NYPD Retired Sgt. Raymond Sheehan killed by wife Barbara. -> To find out how to $upport this project with a gift, go *here*
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KIMBERLY OSBRINK, KILLED DECEMBER 2007 BY HER HUSBAND - EX-MARINE & NEWLY HIRED CLARK COUNTY OREGON DEPUTY RYAN OSBRINK - WHO SAYS HE WAS PRACTICING DRAWING HIS WEAPON AND IT ACCIDENTLY FIRED. (See details here)
Police Family Violence Fact Sheet
from The National Center for Women & Policing here*
ALABAMA STATE TROOPER JENNIFER JACOBS
OFFICER-INVOLVED DOMESTIC ABUSE IS NOT A VICTIMLESS CRIME. MORE IS AT STAKE THAN AN OFFICER'S CAREER.
CONNECTICUT STATE TROOPER VICTOR DIAZ / NEWINGTON POLICE OFFICER CIARA MCDERMOTT MURDER-SUCIDE
(Austin's MySpace Page) ...Albany Police Corporal Andrew Hayslip shot and killed son 4 year old Austin outside his preschool, shot injured Austin's mother -LaDonna Wilkerson - who tried to stop him, then shot and killed himself...
Fort Montgomery - Deborah Nieves, Port Authority Of New York & New Jersey Police Officer Wilfredo Nieves
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Carli Dennis killed by Dallas Township husband police officer Jeffrey ("Jeff") Dennis
Riverside County - McGowan murder-suicide /familicide. Killed: David, Karen, Chase, Paige, Rayne, and David's mother, Angelina McGowan
Concord North Carolina K9 Police Officer Quinn Witherspoon killed by wife Misty
Guitree / Giuatree / Guiatree Hardat killed by New York Police Officer (NYPD) Officer Harry Rupnarine
Cook County Illinois Deputy Kleo Barret murdered by ex-boyfriend
Erin LeeAnn Wade Jones killed by ex, Dodge City Kansas Police Officer Christopher "Chris" Tahah
St. Paul Minnesota Police Department's Aaron Foster indicted for murder of Barbara Winn
Connecticut State Police Trooper Michael Bochicchio shot wife Donna and her attorney, Julie Porzio, then self. Julie survived.
Broward County Florida Sheriff's Deputy Donald Vaughn shot by ex-wife, Sonya
Nome Alaska Police Officer Matthew Owens killed Sonya Dora Nitcuk Ivanoff
California Highway Patrol (CHP) Sgt. Stacey French suicide
Kristen Marie Maxwell Bruce shot, killed by San Diego County Sheriff's Deputy Lowell Bruce Chaleston South Carolina Police Officer Daniel Hiers killed wife Ludimila
Tina Lucas Curran murdered by her Bernville Pennsylvania police chief husband Richard Curran Gadsen County FLorida Sheriff's Deputy Lisha Davis killed by her husband
OHIO - Vicki Barton murdered in an attack set up by her Springboro Police Lt. husband Jim (James) Barton.
New Jersey - Barbara Vanaman shot and killed by her Millville Police Officer husband, Robert Vanaman.
North Carolina - Ex-police chief Pete Bradley was convicted of dometic violence 1 month AFTER his wife Patsy's death - which still has no official ruling. Those who know them say it was murder, not suicide.
Virginia - Sheriff's Deputy Tim Jones was shot and killed by his wife Pam in a murder-suicide.
Missouri - Amanda Cates Scholarship - amandacates.org - Amanda was murdered by her boyfriend - Calverton Park Police Officer Robert Brooks.
Indiana State Trooper David Camm murdered his wife Kimberly, their daughter Jill, and their son, Brad
Illinois - Chicago Police Officer Valerie Martinez shot and wounded her police officer husband and his daughter, then shot herself - committed suicide.
Florida - Orange County sheriff's deputy paul robert terry did shoot and kill his daughter Elyse and son Tyler before killing himself - familicide / suicide.
Utah - SWAT member Lehi Police Officer Art Henderson attempted suicide by cop during a domestic violence shooting rampage then did kill himself in jail. Florida - Sandra Bee Wilson was shot and killed by stalking ex boyfriend Miami-Dade Police Officer Leon Storr - who then killed himself. Murder-suicide.
Florida - Plantation Police Officer Laura Grunas shot and killed boyfriend Palm Beach County Firefighter Robert Peat and then killed herself. Murder-suicide
Orange County Sheriff's Deputy Patrick Gillick did commit suicide when police responded to his wife's 911 call
SOME OF THE BLOGS THAT HAVE PASSED OUT OF VIEW: Association of Trial Lawyers of America on Brame case The Lesson of Tacoma - Current issue of Mother Jones Magazine Dayton OH mum on facts of Cop wife Niema Blake's murder Eugene Police Department's new officer-involved DV policy PRELUDE to Eugene Oregon's new policy - Interview with Chief Retired CPD Lt. Banahan & Former Det./SWAT Griggs on dv in police families Tacoma Police Cpt. Strickland and TPD's new anti-abuse policy What Law Enforcement Commanders should sound like Officer-Involved Domestic Violence .. To All States! [WA] Kent PD Officer-Involved Domestic Violence Policy [OR] Eugene PD Officer-Involved Domestic Violence Policy IACP Model Officer-Involved Domestic Violence Policy POLICY GETS PRAISE FROM POLICE-VIOLENCE EXPERTS Crystal Judson Family Justice Center serves 800+ 1st year Crystal's divorce journal Stress Unit for all Law Enforcement and their families
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ANYONE WHO DOES THE RIGHT THING.
NOTE: Cartoon graphics on this page, including the page background, are used courtesy of the New Takhoman publication.
TACOMA SAID POLICE DV WAS A PRIVATE MATTER's Blurbs
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Tacoma police chief shoots wife, kills himself
By LEWIS KAMB, PHUONG CAT LE, ANGELA GALLOWAY and RUTH TEICHROEB
April 26, 2003
Tacoma's police chief shot his wife and then himself in the parking lot of a strip mall Saturday afternoon while the couple's two young children were nearby...
U.S. Representative Jay Inslee (D-Washington) to the U.S. House of Representatives after passage of the federal legislation - The Crystal Judson Brame Domestic Violence Protocol Program.
Me,
& Why I'm doing this?
I go by Cloud Writer on the internet - live in Tacoma Washington. When Crystal, our police chief's wife was shot I took it personal. As the news articles kept pouring out after the murder-suicide it became evident that the problem was huge.
I don't just count them. I try to gather all there is to find. The data has been useful for several projects already, and eye-opening to many, but I have higher hopes for bigger changes.
It has been an HONOR to be contacted by so many impacted victims and their families as well. It's hard for folks in police families to get help for many reasons. There's more to this than blaming job stress for every murder. There's more at stake than careers. Zero tolerance isn't as simple as it sounds.
At a glance, it would be easy to mistake this for another anti-cop page, but it's not. I just want folks to be alright.
I could go on and on - about how officer-involved dv is different, how LIVING IN A TAKE-CHARGE /TACTICAL COMBAT /GUN CULTURE impacts the deadliness of cop-involved dv (especially mixed with alcohol, or divorce),
how the domestic violence support systems in most places pull away from these cases, why regular dv shelters are a dangerous prospect, about how thick the blue wall of silence is, and about what the long arm of the law means to someone trying to hide. I could write for days about the enhanced fears, like terror-on-steroids.
My prayer is that all my bad news will lead to new hope, that law enforcement agencies will UTILIZE the grant funds set aside for this purpose, develop specific officer-involved dv policies for their departments, and that the brass will stop allowing in-house dv to be covered up.
Police Chief's wife kept divorce case quiet
The Olympian
June 9th, 2003
..."I was very afraid of his reaction in the event I did obtain a personal restraining order," Crystal Brame wrote in a March 25 declaration as part of the divorce. "In fact, I went to great lengths to try to not upset my husband initially because I was so afraid of his reaction."... In her divorce papers, Crystal Brame said David Brame had choked her and threatened to snap her neck. She said he had threatened to kill her, pointing his service revolver at her and saying, "Accidents happen."...
ARTICLE: "Abusive cops call the shots:
Battered wives, girlfriends often feel powerless" ...But what scared Cherry Gilbert most were the guns. One on the nightstand, another under the mattress. Several more stashed beneath the stairs. He was always armed... police who become batterers have the training and inside knowledge of the legal system to outmaneuver victims, experts say. The same gun and badge that enables cops to uphold the law can be used to control victims...
ARTICLE:"Abused officers can fall victim to system: Police face backlash when they report domestic violence ...An officer victimized on the home front faces the unsettling prospect of reporting the violence to her [or his] own employer or a neighboring law enforcement agency. Officers who called 911 after being assaulted by another cop have been subjected to internal investigations because they "embarrassed" their department rather than seeking help discreetly... "Part of what's behind it is this code of silence," said Penny Harrington, a former Portland police chief. "You don't report misconduct on the part of another officer. If you do, the system will turn on you."... Police officials need to deal more sensitively with the dilemmas facing officers who are victims, said Colleen Wilson, chairwoman of the domestic violence committee of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs. "There can be a ripple effect on their careers that is negative"...
ARTICLE:> "Clean up your act, police told:
'We have to get tough' with abusive cops"
...Before the shootings, victims' advocates said they rarely heard from the wives and girlfriends of abusive cops. Afterward, frightened women have flooded hot lines. Some have come forward to share their stories. Their message: Crystal Brame wasn't the only one...
FROM THE TACOMA POLICE DEPARTMENT"S INTERNAL INVESTIGATION REPORT INTO EVENTS LEADING UP TO POLICE CHIEF DAVID BRAME'S MURDER-SUICIDE RELEASED TO THE TAXPAYING PUBLIC:
(THE CENTER IS A GENERAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ONE-STOP CENTER -- WITH POLICE ON SITE)
Crystal's papa, Lane Judson, cuts the ribbon
AUGUST 2006 UPDATE:
This letter, signed by Washington State U.S. Representatives, was sent individually to every United States Governor, every State Attorney General, and every State Insurance Commissioner encouraging ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES to have an officer-involved domestic violence policy.
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION ENACTED DECEMBER 2005:
The Crystal Judson Brame Domestic Violence Protocol Program, -- now a provision of the Violence Against Women Act, provides up to $186 million in Department of Justice grants to law enforcement agencies to educate officers and supervisors, and provide trained advocates for victims. The provision, part of a larger program of training grants for law enforcement, is the first federal law addressing domestic violence within police ranks. Police organizations also backed the legislation, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police, which has established a model domestic-violence policy for police agencies.
U.S. Representative Adam Smith on the Creation of the Crystal Judson Domestic Violence Protocol Program:
"...I am proud to announce that the DOJ bill includes an important provision that creates the Crystal Judson Domestic Violence Protocol Program. This program would provide funding to law enforcement agencies, nonprofit nongovernmental victim services providers and State, tribal, and local governments for the development and implementation of training for local victim domestic violence service providers. This program would also fund victim service personnel, to be known as ?Crystal Judson Victim Advocates,? which provide support services and advocacy for victims of domestic violence committed by law enforcement personnel..."
..."The Judsons have done the impossible by affecting change at the federal and state level," referring to a law enacted which requires Washington state police agencies to adopt specific policies for dealing with domestic violence committed by employees. "Federal legislation such as this can only be viewed as a positive approach to encourage and motivate law enforcement agencies nationwide to address domestic violence," Lane Judson commented. "In the state of Washington, law enforcement agencies already have this type of policy implemented under State Bill 6161. I hope that every state nationwide utilizes this opportunity to become the best of the best"...
"Mr. President, ...This legislation addresses the issue of police officer-involved domestic violence... the City of Tacoma, the Tacoma Police Department, and others formed a task force to examine officer-involved domestic violence. They created a new policy for the Tacoma Police Department, and they helped pass a state law (SB 6161) which requires that departments have policies on officer-involved abuse. This VAWA bill gives local communities new resources to deal with abuse that involves police officers... What happened in Tacoma is a tragedy that cannot be weighed. Out of that tragedy, Washington state changed it laws, and now the federal government is giving communities across the country new tools to address officer-involved abuse. So that new provision - along with the healthcare and housing measures - represent new progress in fighting domestic violence. But frankly, we've got a lot more work to do. I am deeply disappointment that the economic protections I have been fighting for since 1998 were not included in this reauthorization - despite some early progress. We Still Need to Address the Economic Barriers that Trap Victims - Mr. President, if we are going to break the cycle of violence, we need to address the economic barriers that trap victims in abusive relationships... This Congress has a lot of work to do to help victims, and I will come to this Senate floor as many times as it takes, until we finally give victims the help they need and deserve"...
(Above graphic & page background graphic are from John Hathaway's New Takhoman publication)
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