R.C.M.P. - Biased against male victims of Domestic Violence

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The R.C.M.P. ( The Royal Canadian Mounted Police) provide local police services to much of Canada.

There are many examples in their training that support the indoctrination of police officers with a bias against male children and adult victims of violence commited by women.

In 1993, Statistics Canada (STATSCAN), the federal agency of the Government of Canada which conducts statistics studied only women victims of domrestic violence. Based on that research, millions of dollars of taxes were paid to women's only groups assisting only women victims of domestic violence.R.C.M.P. - Biased against male victims of Domestic Violence

In 1999, STATSCAN studied both male and female victims of domestic violence and the results showed that men were victims as often as women.

One excerpt from that training site of the R.C.M.P. taken from their website May 6, 2005

Module 7: Spouse abuse, "Intervention".

The module provides training directed at assisting an officer to intervene in a domestic violence incident involving spouse abuse. The training includes:

• Studying a theory about the repetitive nature of violence towards women.
• Understanding the process of the escalating cycle of violence
• Consideration of statistical data about domestic violence in Canada
• The methods used by abusers to control and subdue victims represented graphically as a 'power and control' wheel
• Analyzing information received from the dispatcher
• Consideration of the legal issue of authority to enter a dwelling
• Suitable actions within the house
• Interviewing the parties involved
• Arresting the abuser
• Completing the investigation