In Orange County last year, there were nearly 10,000 arrests made on domestic-violence charges and Wick says her research shows that less than 2 percent of those arrests will result in convictions. And we're not a whole lot different than most other communities where there simply aren't enough resources and manpower devoted to these hard-to-prove cases.
Of course this is no excuse for McClain, the prosecutor in Atlanta City who let Rice walk away with a slap on the wrist. The reason these cases are so hard to prove is because victims often feel trapped and won't testify against their abusers. In Rice's case, McClain didn't need the victim to testify. He had an elevator video showing Rice knocking Janay unconscious.
A lot of times you hear the victims getting blamed because they won't testify, Wick says. When you have a homicide investigation, the victim can't testify and, yet, those cases are still pursued. Domestic-violence cases have to be prosecuted like homicides.
The good news amid the Rice fiasco is that domestic violence is at the forefront of the national consciousness. The NFL has a strict new policy in dealing with domestic-violence offenders, college football coaches are being held publicly accountable when they allow domestic abusers to remain on their teams, and sports as a whole has helped bring America's dirty little secret out into the public mainstream.
Tony Dungy, the former coach of the Tampa Bay Bucs and the Indianapolis Colts, is the founder of All Pro Dad a faith-based organization that mentors men on how to become better fathers. Dungy's organization recently partnered with the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence because, Dungy says, It's time for men to stand up and speak out against violence against women. ... When that [Ray Rice] video went viral, it caused us all to examine what this is really all about. It's given visibility to a problem that's been there for a long time.
After the viral video, more than 200,000 individual women tweeted out the reasons why they left or stayed in abusive relationships. Wick tells the story of a domestic-abuse survivor who recently left her job as a technology executive in Texas and has moved to Orlando and started Big Mountain Data an organization with the mission statement of developing data science solutions to help in the fight against family abuse and violence.
No, there wasn't justice in the Rice case, but there was a tremendous amount that we did gain from it, Wick says.
You could say that measly $125 fine will go down as the best money Ray Rice ever spent.
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