Comments on Feminism Online: Protecting Women - Or Not

What is worse is how hard it is to get a restraini...

2005-07-09T07:04:00.000-05:00

What is worse is how hard it is to get a restraining order. I have found that most police will brush off a woman unless there has been physical abuse (that is evident at the time of the request).

Grant it, my experience is limited to PA and NJ, but I've heard it is similar elsewhere.

Zoe (by the way, I love that name),I heard of this...

2005-07-07T16:30:00.000-05:00

Zoe (by the way, I love that name),

I heard of this also, and was equally perplexed by the lack of "outrage" or even concern that this brought from the media at large. I did hear of short "side-show" comment about this, but it was immediately brushed aside by the Supreme Court's ruling over property rights.

I find it incoherent of our legal (lacking justice) system to issue protection orders, writs, and other such "peace bonds," and not give them the universal "teeth" they require for effective enforcement. I can assure you that the dismissive and disregarding behavior that Ms. Gonzales received IS NOT indicative of ALL law enforcement. However, it is still inexcusable (and in this case down right criminal) of the Castle Rock Police Department, as well as, Douglas County and the State of Colorado not to have a policy in place for the enforcement of a court issuance. However, I'm more than sure that they would enforce and act upon a court issued warrant. One more thing, Castle Rock has plenty of municipal ordinances covering "Offense Against Public Peace." Although their PD may not "have to" enforce this retraining order, they do have ordinances against harrassment, assault, disorderly conduct, trespass, disturbing the peace, discharging weapons, and damaging public/private property. I'm sure that they could investigated a call-for-help from a citizen, surmised reasonable suspicion, and charged her estranged husband with a bonafide crime.

What do I know, I'm not a Supreme Court Justice.

Zoe,I'm in the same position. I have a friend in ...

2005-07-05T20:01:00.000-05:00

Zoe,

I'm in the same position. I have a friend in town visiting for a bit, so my computer time has been limited at best. Hopefully next week things will clear up a bit for me though.

Hi Laura,It's not you that upsets me. I'm just gr...

2005-07-05T14:03:00.000-05:00

Hi Laura,

It's not you that upsets me. I'm just grieving for the dead, for the craziness that exists in this world. Sorry I haven't been around much everyone. Hubby is on 3 weeks holidays so I'm not around the computer much. :)

Laura,Thank you for posting this info. I didn't e...

2005-07-04T06:50:00.000-05:00

Laura,

Thank you for posting this info. I didn't even know about this ruling. This is just sickening.

Oh hon, I hope I didn't upset you too much. I just...

2005-07-02T17:46:00.000-05:00

Oh hon, I hope I didn't upset you too much. I just think its so important - even more so since a new supreme court justice is going to be put in place soon - that we start thinking about the legal securities we take for granted.

Laura thank you so much for this article & bringin...

2005-07-02T15:22:00.000-05:00

Laura thank you so much for this article & bringing it to our attention.

I'm sitting here letting the tears flow.