Neither will yours. Nicole Simpson went to many experts on domestic violence for help but none of them stopped him . He will not stop himself. There is no proof that counseling the batterer stops him. It was Nicole who asked the police to arrest Simpson in 1989, the ninth time the police had been called.
Arrest needs to be mandatory.
The 1989 assault on Nicole Simpson should have resulted in O. J. Simpson's ninth arrest. In 1993 alone, there were 300,000 domestic violence calls to the police in New York City. Wife-beating is not America's dirty little secret, as the press and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala say. Wife-beating is commonplace and ordinary because men believe they have rights over women that women dispute. The control men want of women, the domination men require over women, is expressed in this terrible brutality.