20 Quotes by Rachel Louise Snyder

We now know it’s the ones who don’t show up in court, who don’t renew the restraining orders, who are in the most danger.”3.

And for every woman killed in the United States from domestic violence homicide, nearly nine are almost killed.

Campbell says twelve hundred abused women are killed every year in the United States.1 That figure does not count children.

This Person You Love Will Take Your Life.

Police departments across the country fail to discipline officers for the same crimes that civilians are arrested for every day. A study from Florida between 2008 and 2012 noted that while only about 1% of officers remained on the job following a failed drug test, and 7% remained after a theft, nearly 30% of officers with domestic violence complaints were still employed in their same positions a year later.

You could certainly say about half the cases of mass shootings are extreme incidents of domestic violence.” In other words, it’s not that domestic violence predicts mass shootings. It’s that mass shootings, more than half the time, are domestic violence.

It’s not women who need to learn violence; it’s men who need to learn nonviolence.

Leaving is never an event; it’s a process.

Why victims stay isn’t the question we need to be asking. Rather, I think a better question is: how do we protect this person? No qualifiers. No musing about why she stayed or what she might appear to be doing or not doing. Just one simple question: how do we protect her?