West Yorkshire Police and Domestic Violence

[PurgatoryOfPotholes]

Tonight, they tweeted this

Excited for England’s #Euro2020 final appearance later today?

A mix of too much beer and the excitement of the football can lead to domestic abuse, help is available for everyone.

Find out more at: t.co/BCGw76a6Qg t.co/5mV04HEVrt

twitter.com/WestYorksPolice/status/1414192965778558979?s=19

As lots of people have pointed out, this phrasing neatly removes all responsibility from the person abusing their family.

Interesting choice of language there.

Yeah, let's advise the abuser not to drink too much, try not to get too excited and help is available if you feel like kicking your wife.

Well it's West Yorkshire police...

This is shit messaging.

Standard from them. Hopefully they'll get a lot of shit for that post.

It isn't 'poorly worded' by the way because that's how they actually fucking think. Illuminating isn't it.

Well they posted that got a load of shit and then posted 2 more along the same lines.

So there you go.

Do they never learn.

Its just like thise rape campaign.posters putting the responsibility on the victims.

Don't buy your dp booze and let them.watch the football or you might get hit.

Ffs

Why are so many people who get drunk and kick.off at football matches and get violent still home with access to someone to abuse wyp? If you know this happens what are you doing to keep the victims safe ?

The ratio must have been terrible, they have deleted the tweet.

the excitement of the football can lead to domestic abuse

FFS

Talk about minimising.

''We regret any offence caused by a recent message about domestic abuse.

Our aim was to raise awareness of this awful and all too common crime, but we heard what you said and accept that this time, we got the tone of the message wrong.''

twitter.com/WestYorksPolice/status/1414537871529238528

Its 2021 and they still don't understand DV.

That's very depressing. Reads like,; 'Women, man can get a bit excited by football and it might lead to them beating you up. If they beat you, call this number.'

We need to get more angry because otherwise, they won't bother to examine what they wrote and why women might be offered.

Oh, I see it's been deleted.
Idiots.

It's not like you even need to understand domestic violence.

It's kind of a staple of being a police officer (enforcing, y'know, the law) that you don't accept drunkenness as an excuse to commit violent crime against anyone.

Intoxication is not a defence!

Intoxication is not a defence!

But it all too easily might be a trigger.

@sawdustformypony

Intoxication is not a defence!

But it all too easily might be a trigger.

If they'd phrased it 'we are aware that alcohol consumption increases during football tournaments, and this may trigger incidents of domestic abuse' I don't think that would have been unreasonable.

As they've admitted, it's the tone that's completely wrong - 'excitement' - as if they were talking about 10 year old boys playing in their first school match or something.

Yeah, but problem is that many, many men actually don't grow up. They don't.

That's it ? the word "excitement" ?

So they haven't realised that it's a person that commits the violence who is 100% responsible.

And not that it's not alcohol that commits crimes.

I get pissed and emotional and don't beat anyone up.

It's basic stuff.

'We regret any offence caused by a recent message about domestic abuse.

Our aim was to raise awareness of this awful and all too common crime, but we heard what you said and accept that this time, we got the tone of the message wrong.'

They regret offence caused, the famous non apology.

This is what we are dealing with. Thick, simple minded people who don't recognise women as autonomous humans that need REAL protection by the law.

Many aren't thick or simple minded.

They are misogynists.

And that's all.

Thanks nicegerbil. I get it. Evil.

Not evil necessarily.

Just with a fairly common subconscious belief that women/ girls aren't something you really bother thinking about.

Or of course a conscious dislike/ hatred of women.

Hard to tell which is which a lot.

WYPolice are misogynistic so often it's hard not to think it's deliberate.