This is a prime example why the women in this state are having acts of violence against them in record numbers daily, because the criminals know they can get away with it. A female cannot drive or walk down the street without fear of violent crimes to her from any man that approaches her, even those paid to protect her safety when she calls them, as my story below shows.

I lived in Yavapai County till 5 months ago. I am an educated college teacher. My uneducated booze drinking husband of 1 year started to beat me up. He did it violently three times. I called the Yavapai County and Prescott Police all 3 times on him for this, and they refuse to do nothing. The first time the County Attorney let him off saying that my husband could do whatever he wanted to evict his wife or anyone out of a business office; in other words, violence can happen outside of the home to a wife. The second time, my husband fled and cut himself with a knife and when police found him, he told them I did it. They arrested me on his lies when I called them. I talked to 3 other women that day that were in similar situations with the judges and police in Yavapai County. The third time my husband broke my collar bone, and gave me internal injuries and dumped me off 100 miles away. When I was able to get to the police, the police said they do not have enough evidence since I went to them after going to the urgent care, and 7 days later when I could get someone to drive me to them.

I find that this state’s police, sheriffs, and judges do as they please because the freedoms that they have been given to Sheriff Joe.

Continue to allow government police (“the King’s men”) to use and abuse their powers and as sure as the sun appears to rise in the morning more situations such as this will occur.

Power, once offered, WILL be used, monopoly power, once granted is CERTAIN to be abused. The only question is how often.

I don’t think that we need to worry about the Andy Griffiths of the world, the problem will be the Barney Fife’s of the world who have a government police car, a government police uniform, a government police gun and one too many government police rounds of ammo (e.g. 1 is too many, even if it is (supposed to be kept) in his shirt pocket).

*They* work for *us*. They are the one with the dangerous job, and it’s not our responsibility to make ourselves less safe in order for them to feel safer or for their convenience. If they don’t like feeling afraid or having to follow a motorist to a populated area, they should find another job.

On the flip side of that, I really think law enforcement personnel probably all deserve a huge raise, at the same time hiring, training, and ethics standards are raised. This is not to say that there aren’t plenty of excellent departments: San Francisco and San Jose, near where I live, stand out as prime examples of the way law enforcement personnel should behave, though given how hard it is for SF to hire officers, I suspect they could all use a raise.

The two times I’ve been pulled over in the SF bay area when I wasn’t in a safe area, the officers followed me to a safe area before even turning on the lights, for their own safety.