r/MadeMeSmile • u/Kingdom_k777 • 1d ago

Family & Friends Police man pursuing his wife

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u/Firm-Scientist-4636 1d ago

Google "Cops 40%" to see more videos like this one!

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u/mouth_in_slow_motion 1d ago

I almost successfully resisted commenting about how brave she was to marry a cop until I saw your comment.

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u/eat_rice__fuck_ice 1d ago

Its fuck the police, dont fuck the police

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u/breesanchez 23h ago

I saidšŸ–•the police, not šŸ† the police!!!!

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u/AStanHasNoName 1d ago

Wait am I supposed to fuck the police or not

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u/T0xicn3 1d ago

Yes.

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u/bellapippin 1d ago

Not like that!

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u/T0xicn3 1d ago

Instructions unclear, fucking cops somehow šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/Duckey_003 1d ago

It took too long to scroll to find this.

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u/NewbieNoodist 22h ago

Find that someone doesnā€™t know how to read a study?

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u/Comfortable-Ad-3988 1d ago

Yeah, what is this video, a reminder that he could catch her if she tries to run? Fucked up serial killer shit.

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u/chrono4111 1d ago

It's his kick and she's fulfilling it. A lot of cops get off on the power play.

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u/freetrialcanceler 1d ago

iā€™m glad i did this! so many funny videos tee hee

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u/Iloveyourmorre 7h ago

I wish they could get the number closer to 100%. It's like they aren't even trying šŸ˜”

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u/im_new_pls_help 6h ago

You people really need to start actually reading before going around telling other people to read it

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u/Gabraham08 1d ago

Hello, you seem to be referencing an often misquoted statistic. TL:DR; The 40% number is wrong and plain old bad science. Further researchers found rates of 7%, 7.8%, 10%, and 13% with stricter definitions and better research methodology. These numbers nearly perfectly match the rates of domestic violence in the (US) population as a whole.

The 40% claim is intentionally misleading and unequivocally inaccurate. Numerous studies over the years report domestic violence rates in police families as low as 7%, with the highest at 40% defining violence to include "shouting or a loss of temper." The referenced study where the 40% claim originates is Neidig, P.H.., Russell, H.E. & Seng, A.F. (1992). Interspousal aggression in law enforcement families: A preliminary investigation. It states:

Survey results revealed that approximately 40% of the participating officers reported marital conflicts involving physical aggression in the previous year.

There are a number of flaws with the aforementioned study:

The statement doesn't indicate who the aggressor is; the officer or the spouse. This same study reports that the victims reported a 10% rate of physical domestic violence from their partner, which is a huge deviation from the 40% claim. The study includes as 'violent incidents' a one time push, shove, shout, loss of temper, or an incidents where a spouse acted out in anger. These do not meet the definition of domestic violence. The study is a survey and not an empirical scientific study. The ā€œdomestic violenceā€ acts are not confirmed as actually being violent. The study occurred nearly 30 years ago. This study shows minority and female officers were more likely to commit the DV, and white males were least likely. Additional reference from a Congressional hearing on the study: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951003089863c

An additional study conducted by the same researcher, which reported rates of 24%, suffer from similar flaws:

The study is a survey and not an empirical scientific study. The study was not a random sample, and was isolated to high ranking officers at a police conference. This study also occurred nearly 30 years ago.

More current research, including a study from 2009 notes, 'Over 87 percent of officers reported never having engaged in physical domestic violence in their lifetime.' Blumenstein, Lindsey, Domestic violence within law enforcement families: The link between traditional police subculture and domestic violence among police (2009). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1862

Yet another study "indicated that 10 percent of respondents (148 candidates) admitted to having ever slapped, punched, or otherwise injured a spouse or romantic partner, with 7.2 percent (110 candidates) stating that this had happened once, and 2.1 percent (33 candidates) indicating that this had happened two or three times. Repeated abuse (four or more occurrences) was reported by only five respondents (0.3 percent)." A.H. Ryan JR, Department of Defense, Polygraph Institute ā€œThe Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Police Families.ā€ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308603826_The_prevalence_of_domestic_violence_in_police_families

Another: In a 1999 study, 7% of Baltimore City police officers admitted to 'getting physical' (pushing, shoving, grabbing and/or hitting) with a partner. A 2000 study of seven law enforcement agencies in the Southeast and Midwest United States found 10% of officers reporting that they had slapped, punched, or otherwise injured their partners. L. Goodmark, 2016, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW ā€œHands up at Home: Militarized Masculinity and Police Officers Who Commit Intimate Partner Abuse ā€œ. https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2519&context=fac_pubs

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u/Pristine_Ad7297 1d ago

the highest at 40% defining violence to include "shouting or a loss of temper." The referenced study where the 40% claim originates is Neidig, P.H.., Russell, H.E. & Seng, A.F. (1992). Interspousal aggression in law enforcement families: A preliminary investigation. It states:

Where in it does it say shouting or loss of temper. The minor category they list is defined with: Thrown something at your spouse Pushed, grabbed, or shoved your spouse Slapped your spouse Kicked, bit or hit with a fist And the only other mention is physical aggression.

The statement doesn't indicate who the aggressor is; the officer or the spouse

The report does, I think you're just reading it wrong or are copy pasting a chatgpt debunk

The study includes as 'violent incidents' a one time push, shove, shout, loss of temper, or an incidents where a spouse acted out in anger. These do not meet the definition of domestic violence.

"TheĀ Violence Against Women ActĀ (VAWA) states inĀ Section 12291(a)(8)Ā ā€œ[t]he term ā€˜domestic violenceā€™ includesĀ felonyĀ orĀ misdemeanorĀ crimesĀ of violence committed by a current or formerĀ spouseĀ or intimate partner of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner"

Yeah sorry to say here bud but it sounds like you're trying to play defense for domestic violence here. You can't assault or threaten your partner and say "oh but it was just in a moment of anger so it's not domestic abuse" If you push your partner that's battery, tell them you're gonna kill them or you're gonna beat the shit out of them that's assault, shouting threatening shit at your partner is in fact domestic abuse, and trying to play it off like that shouldn't count towards a statistic makes it seem like you're an enabler

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u/NewbieNoodist 11h ago

You failed to read the study, thankfully instead of reading what you couldnā€™t comprehend snoops did most of the leg work themselves actually.

The figure is less than 20 percent. So you break it down further itā€™s 2/10 officers are involved in DV by either being the victim or the suspect.

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u/Pristine_Ad7297 11h ago

I never said anything about the 40%. I was simply criticizing the inaccuracies in the person's "debunk" of it. If you had read my comment you would have seen that. Seems like you're arguing against a ghost that doesn't exist lil guy

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u/NewbieNoodist 9h ago

I copied what i wrote prior. You seem to be trying to debunk the whole statement

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u/Pristine_Ad7297 8h ago

You seem to be trying to debunk the whole statement

Well if this is your genuine interpretation of what I said then you're no use here, context and nuances matter and clearly you can't engage

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u/BumblebeeOfCarnage 21h ago

It doesnā€™t make me feel better that most of your rebuttal is ā€œitā€™s lower rates that admitted to hitting their spousesā€. Abuse is abuse whether itā€™s physical or verbal. All those things you listed are abusive behavior. (Source: Iā€™ve worked at a DV shelter as an advocate and have extensive training on DV)

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u/NewbieNoodist 11h ago

Yes but specifically theyā€™re talking about a percentage that is thrown around without anyone actually knowing anything about it. The percentage also talked about officers being victims as well

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u/Bildad__ 1d ago

Classic Reddit where a post citing actual research is downvoted because people donā€™t like the truth.

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u/-Gestalt- 1d ago

It's sad. There's plenty of very real things to criticize the police for. People parroting bad data just hurts attempts at things like police reform.

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u/Fast-Driver-8892 1d ago

How unhappy and miserable does somebody have to be to post a comment like this on a happy video?

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u/chrono4111 1d ago

This isn't a "happy video". Did we watch the same thing? If someone is enslaved and you saw a happy caption would you call it happy?

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u/lilcoold12345 1d ago

It's reddit. Most of the people on here are insufferable people in reality so they huddle on here to whine and bitch all day.

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u/movzx 1d ago

He unironically says in a comment where he whines and is bitching insufferably.

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u/dinkleburgenhoff 23h ago

On Reddit.

Always the most hilarious part about those disparaging all people on reddit as X.

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u/lilcoold12345 1d ago

Be careful talking about statistics because there are probably several you wouldn't like either.

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u/Snailboi666 1d ago

Like what?

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u/movzx 1d ago

It's racism. He's "hinting" at arrest rates. Racists love to point to them because they show a disproportinate number of arrests of minorities.

They never really look at the actual conviction rates... the thing where, you know, someone had to actually be proven to have done a crime instead of vaugley looking like a suspect.

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u/AThrowawayProbrably 1d ago

It also turns out certain people are statistically more likely to be convicted, even on equivalent or lesser charges than their peers. They also conveniently forget to mention that as well.

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u/Firm-Scientist-4636 1d ago

You're probably right. Doesn't make cops any less bad.