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Abstract: 

In decades past, many police officers felt that responding to domestic violence calls was not police work, that they should not get involved in “family matters.” This attitude has changed as awareness of domestic violence (DV) has grown. But how do responders—and the parties—respond when one or more of the persons involved in the dispute is a police officer? Many victims of DV by an officer know that when responders at the scene learn that the perpetrator is another police officer, a subtle attitude shift takes place: They are now responding not to the victim, but to “an officer in need.”

Keywords: Brame, occupational training, Thin Blue Line, Lautenberg Amendment, Lack of Department Protocol, IACP policy

Affiliations:  1: John Jay College of Criminal Justice.