I previously diaried a request for kossacks to contact Maryland legislators about the rash of women in Maryland being killed at the hands of men whom they had previously asked for protection from. The only use coming from too many of these orders (which seem to be denied way too often) are to give the police a head start on where to start an investigation AFTER a murder is committed.
Well it's happened again.
LAUREL, Md. -- Police say the killing of a young mother and her daughter in Laurel Md., Tuesday afternoon may not have been a random act. Investigators believe that 22-year-old Lisa Laverne Brown and her 9-month-old daughter may have been targeted.
According to court documents, on Dec. 1, Brown applied for a temporary peace order against Malik Smartaney, a man who had been dating her mother.
Guess she didn't have a surveilance tape rolling in her bedroom. Even if there was a tape (like there was with the woman who was killed inside the gaurd shack of a delivery service) they wouldn't bother to check it until someone told them that the killer had been out bragging. And as for the "she just want to steal the kids from their dad", this time it doesn't seem to apply. While the guy named in the application for a protection order isn't publicly named as a suspect, common sense says to start looking in the direction that that the victim herself pointed you in. And the most horrible part, they shot a 9 MONTH OLD BABY. What the fuck can a 9 month old do to provoke this type of hatred?
I'm quite sure that someone will show up here to argue that nothing could have been done or that she was just like every other woman and just inventing the fear of violence to harm some upstanding citizen. What the fuck will it take to end this shit? The majority of responses to my last diary ranged from there's nothing anyone can do to fix the system, to arguments that the police need to make judgement calls on whether or not a case will be succesfully prosecuted before they arrest some prick for beating on a woman, to the "fathers rights" sound byte that protection orders are just short-cuts for women to steal children from the arms of their loving fathers. I do beleive that fathers deserve rights, but I have NEVER come across a "fathers rights" group that wasn't just a pay to play boys club that perpetuates ongoing violence by teaching sadistic sociopathic scum sucking pigs how to beat DV charges, and by making public campaigns that DV is a myth invented for the sole purpose of victimizing innocent helpless men.
DV cases need to be taken out of the hands of traffic court judges. Laws need to be adjusted to include context and not just verbal or written explixit threats that happen on video tape. Police need DOJ grade training for DV. All three branches in Maryland are FUBAR when it comes to intervention, as the newspapers are reporting new cases of domestic violence that escalated to murder on an almost monthly basis there.