
Quoting
ignoramus23
Not gonna accept that. There is nothing nosy about intervening in or calling authorities to break up domestic violence. It is the community's responsibility to quash out the scourge that is intimate partner violence, because often times the victims won't report it themselves for a million reasons. Trust me, I've done my research on domestic violence, and the best thing that can be done is to bring it to the attention of authorities, which I did. Thanks for your opinions there, though. Next time, he knows I'm gonna be listening for DV and he knows I'm gonna call the police if I hear it, because none of the people in my community are going to tolerate it. We are also going to look for signs of abuse in the girl.... and perhaps even the guy if you are all so intent that he could have been the one getting abused (lol guy is twice her size). The law has a really effective way of dealing with domestic abusers in a way that will burn them so bad that they'll think twice about ever doing it again.
Also, there is an interesting YouTube video out there where they had couples stage DV in a public park to see what people's reactions would be. Quite a few men bystanders stepped in when they saw the man beating on the woman. I definitely feel like there is a social responsibility there, in addition to calling the police.
Sorry for coming off a bit emotional here with this, but I have a lifelong history with exposure to this kind of stuff... and it destroys lives if no one ever gets in the way to intervene.