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What Women Need from Police and Prosecutors: 35 Years of Working to Improve Police Response to Male Violence Against Women

Raped women, who so often find their reports of rape “unfounded” by police, would stand to benefit from some method of holding police accountable. What women demand is a civilian run police complaints system that is empowered to order police to co-operate and to enforce its decisions against police.

By Louisa Russell
2010
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Criminal Justice SystemFront Line
Our Collective Efforts to Improve the Police Response for Women Escaping Male Violence

We recognized just how many demands made several years ago to improve police responses have still not been met and recommitted/ decided that they are still worth campaigning for. One such simple example is that 911 calls, initial police responses be fully documented as public records.

By Louisa Russell
May 2008
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Front LineCriminal Justice System
Obsession With Intent

An investigative report into one hundred cases of violence against women; in all cases the women tried to get help from the system. 
 It is a harrowing account of individual women's stories, their understanding of the danger they faced, their attempts to get help, the incompetence and/or indifference they met, and, in those cases where someone was willing to prosecute, their vulnerability under/within the law.

By Lee Lakeman
2005
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Feminist Rape Crisis Centre to Intervene in Woman’s Civil Suit Against RCMP and Government

In the first case, the government lawyer argued that Ms. Mooney was ‘the author of her own demise’ it was a glaringly woman-blaming defense. It is even more disturbing to realize that this position was taken by our government and spoken in the name of the public, when the public disagrees and is actually supportive of Ms. Mooney.

2003
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Wife BatteryCriminal Justice System
Vancouver Rape Relief’s Factum: Intervener in Bonnie Mooney’s Lawsuit

In VRR’s submission, it is apparent that Bonnie Mooney was one of the many women “abandoned by the system,” to her very great cost. It is also apparent that real change, not impression management, is required as inadequate police responses to women’s complaints of male violence contributes to its perpetuation, devalues women, and fails to protect their security of person. In the result, violent men are not stopped or deterred from engaging in further acts of violence, women reasonably lose confidence in the justice system, and women’s Charter rights to equality and security of the person are violated.

2003
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Wife BatteryCriminal Justice System
Privatized Justice No Justice for Women

The media and police have put the family members of the missing women in the untenable situation of being expected to be critical of the police, yet they are made entirely dependent on the same police for information about the investigation and the fate of `their woman.’ Police-controlled victim services workers have reportedly warned family members about jeopardizing the investigation by speaking with media and non-police agencies (read feminist).

By Suzanne Jay
2002
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Criminal Justice SystemFront Line
Unity Statement of the Women’s Groups

While it is often impossible to engage the police to save the lives of women around us, we are often overwhelmed with misdirected policing which criminalizes women for coping with violence directed at them and for coping with the poverty enforced on them.

May 4, 1993
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