Conservative policies at work in a red-state.

LOL. 

This is what stupid conservative idea gets you. First they watch people’s house gets burned down, then they want to let a 30yr old die because he has no HC, now women are left to fend for themselves against bullies and drunks. Bloody hell! what a life. More tax cut, that’s the answer I guess. 

Silly headline.  They’re not prosecuting any misdemeanor cases, not just domestic violence misdemeanor cases. 

I’ve never understood why police show up and force a man to leave his home.  It makes law enforcement the de facto personal bouncers of women who are perpetrating violence in their own home.  Like that deputy mayor in NYC who was forced to quit because his wife called the police simply to eject her husband from their home.  Cops arrested him.  Made headlines.  Job gone.

At the turn of the millenium, I had a room-mate bring home a guy whose wife had called the police and had him tossed out.  Turns out she and her mother were living in the apartment he rented, and tag-team verbally abusing him.  And the cops put him out instead of his mother-in-law! 

The cops who are guilty of domestic violence always work holidays not just for the safety of their families, but to make themselves look good to their bosses by arresting men for domestic violence.

I think this is probably the most backward thing I’ve ever read on this website.  And that’s really saying something.

Let me guess. You are a Tea Bagger. Your IQ is between 50 and 80. You think the police force should be dismantled and a private militia should enforce law and order. You make 30K a year but you are for tax cuts for the billionaires. How am I doing so far?

More proof that the Teabaggers are the Taliban, and the Taliban are Teabaggers.  God and Grover Norquist say that if a man needs to rough up the old lady a little, there’s nothing that ought to get in his way.

All wrong, except on the tax code stuff.  Don’t know the topic well enough to have an opinion.

Why do you support abusive women?  Is it your belief that women are incapable of being abusive? 

Every time I think the repugs can’t get any lower, they never fail to disappoint. I bet this is a bible thumping, shouting christian values hypocrite. If this man’s ship were sinking, he obviously would be the first in the life boat. In this country, the repug slogan: “MEN FIRST; white men, black men, hispanic men and then the women can make the choice: the child or themselves.” Oh, that’s right, the repug men don’t want women to have a CHOICE either.

Justice for all is backwards?  Reply that you support justice for all.  I need to see you type those words.

If the cops forced the alleged victim to vacate to an emergency shelter, then abusive women could not use law enforcement as their de facto bouncers.  Why is that simple requirement so unfair?  As it is, we must assume that all women (and all police) are incapable of misconduct.  Why doesn’t that strain credibility as it would in every other instance?

Pretend the abusers are illegal immigrants, then it’ll be okay for ya.

Pretend the abusers are illegal immigrants, then it’ll be okay for ya.

You sound like an abortion loving nitwit.

My guess is you’re a TeaBaggee hoping to achieve an IQ of 50.  You make nothing, do nothing, and want more handouts.

It’s obvious what will now happen in Topeka.

Even though domestic violence has not been decriminalized at all (which the morons in this thread are pretending happened), every male in the entire city will now go beat women because the local city-run office handling those misdemeanor cases has closed and the responsibility has shifted upwards in the government to the county level like it is for 10 other cities of Topeka’s size or larger in the state.

Got it? So these cases, instead of being prosecuted by the city, will be prosecuted by the county.

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!

Beating women is now like totally legal in Topeka because of teabaggerz and Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin AND KOCH BROTHERS or something!@!!!!!111! TEATALIBAN!@!!!!

My sweet jeebus, the DERP from the liberal commentariat here – not one of whom apparently bothered to read the linked article at all – is a thing to behold

Welcome to TEA PARTY NATION!

Gotta love austerity.  Hopefully we could keep it up and be reduced to what we were during the caveman times. 

This is what teapartiers want, to be able to drink, shoot their guns and beat their wives in peace.

Actually, as someone who did read the article, I’d like to point out that it plainly states:
“18 people have been arrested on domestic violence charges since
September and released without charges because no agency is accepting
new cases. One of the offenders was even arrested and released twice.”

Personally, I don’t care if you’re liberal, conservative, middle of the road, or just plain clueless but if people (regardless of gender) are being arrested for spousal abuse and then released with no charges made, then your assertion that “these cases, instead of being prosecuted by the city, will be prosecuted by the county” is decidedly incorrect. Just sayin’…

No, I’m not incorrect in stating that the cases will now be handled by the county. That’s what the resolution they passed does. Your problem is that a handful of cases got caught in the lapse between the city closing the office and the county getting ready to take the responsibility on.

Yeah, that sucks. Budget cuts suck. But they’re economic reality. There is no more money. Where would you like to make the cuts? A schol teacher or two? An environmental department? A bureaucrat somewhere? A fireman? Tell everyone, please.

Oh, wait. Your solution was to just raise taxes on everyone. Again.

And if you kept reading,

The council later voted 9-0 to approve a resolution sponsored by
Archer authorizing Stanley to negotiate with county officials to seek a
resolution concerning the prosecution of domestic violence cases.

The proposal initially wasn’t on the agenda for the meeting, where council members voted to suspend the rules to add it.

Stanley said that while he has already been discussing resolution of
the situation with Taylor and county commissioners, the passage of the
resolution gave him the stature to continue doing that. He said those
talks would now get “real serious real fast.”

Certainly doesn’t sound like local govt is just not going to be handling these cases anymore.

As I said, correctly, it’s just at the county level.

Grow up.

Drinking, and shooting guns in proper circumstances, are not crimes and certainly aren’t limited to tea partiers.

Beating women is still a crime in Topeka and elsewhere.

What in the hell are you babbling about?

“WIth no local agency to uphold the law, Topeka has been forced to set domestic violence offenders free with no charges against them”

Can’t we just close loopholes and ask rich people to pay their fair share on their earning instead of letting women get smacked around?

Welcome to the new republican reality, the rich rob too much to afford justice for the poor.

 This is Obama’s fault….Not tea partiers.
Obama broke America with his spending.
You’re just jealous because your wife can kick your butt just like MO kicks Barry’s
Poosey!!!

Egyptsteve is more proof that fleabaggers are too stupid for reading comprehension. 

What is your fascination with having a man’s balls in your mouth?  Take a shower fleabagger, then get a job.

Another idiot who cannot read.  Did you not understand the little black marks on your screen that make shapes?  We call them letters and words.  Oh, you did not read the actual article, nor do you have any idea what the f–k you are talking about?  That’s what I figured.

You’re right.  I’d much rather be in NY watching lefties defecate on vehicles, trash private property and generally stink the place up.  That’s nice, real nice.

This is what years of Democratic party buying public union votes gets you, people retiring in their 40′s with anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 in govt pension incomes leaving the local governments and communities nothing with which to run their governments…  If you really want to have the discussion bring all the facts to the table…

Yeah, Tea Partiers are generally wearing diapers since they are mostly 100 years old.

Tea party members do not advocate violence against anyone. How liberals got this in their head is beyond comprehension. Liberals often assume they are intellectual heavyweights, and slam conservatives as if they are mentally sub standard, but the evidence here is exactly the opposite. In point of fact, this always turns out to be the case.

Mediaite put this story here in the form it is to fuel discussion and it demonstrates that they achieved their goal. The story is deliberately misleading and Mediaite should be obligated to update it with the facts that these cases will still be prosecuted by the county rather than in municipal court. Some posters here figured that out, but the liberals who lack the discernment to figure out that no one is getting away with these crimes have sure made idiots of themselves with their misleading and misguided postings.

The bottom line is if a woman calls 911 to report a domestic violence case, it will now be investigated and prosecuted by the county sheriff who will make the arrest of the alleged perpetrator and then the county attorney will be filing charges against the suspect in custody.

No one is getting away with anything here except Mediaite – they got liberals to make fools of themselves, and last time I checked that is not only not an offense but it is what comes naturally for these intellectually elite boobs.

Ira Einhorn.

Why did Tina repeatedly make Ike beat the crap out of her?  Ah, the mysteries of life.

…and in a related story, Chris Brown, Mike Tyson and Alec Baldwin were all spotted house-hunting in downtown Topeka!
LOL

Isn’t the Westboro Baptist Church based in Topeka?

And how about Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education

I have never been in Topeka myself. Sounds like a strange place. Especially considering it is a decent size city (130,000), not some tiny village.

Maybe you could check and see how local enforcement, obtains and uses the funds! No,…. just wing it!

“Tea bags” ,…moving backwards and proud of it!

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Topeka is violating the US Constitution and should be sued by a class of all domestic violence victims.
See 32CFR215

Retire in their 40′s?

You sound like a war loving nitwit.

Still sending people to jail for weed though, I’ll wager.

YOU’RE A EFFIN JACK ASS FOR POSTING THIS HERE ON!! THIS IS SOMETHING SERIOUS AND YOU’RE SPAMMING?! I HOPE YOU HAVE TO ENDURE THIS ONE DAY SO YOU WON’T TAKE THIS SO LIGHTLY ANYMORE! JERK!!

You know, the biggest problem with your comments lies in 3 little words “Yeah, that sucks”.  I guess that’s easy for you to say because you are not the one being punched in the face.  

“Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society”  - Oliver Wendell Holmes  (REPUBLICAN)

Truth is any ASS who finds themselves discussing SIDES or RACE when thinking of a reaction to this case is too stupid to be allowed to have anything to do with the legal or political process and needs to understand that this type of insanity at the expense of another American citizen is a direct affront to each and every one of us!! You find it in your soul to read this article and find a side that is at fault or to blame is indicative of a fundamental demise in our collective intelligence. To arge about this with a side on your mind is to be the member of a damn banana republic. Is that what happens after a decade or so of insane leadership and an ignorance of news sold to you based on ratings? Sad sad sad..

Truth is any ASS who finds themselves discussing SIDES or RACE when thinking of a reaction to this case is too stupid to be allowed to have anything to do with the legal or political process and needs to understand that this type of insanity at the expense of another American citizen is a direct affront to each and every one of us!! You find it in your soul to read this article and find a side that is at fault or to blame is indicative of a fundamental demise in our collective intelligence. To arge about this with a side on your mind is to be the member of a damn banana republic. Is that what happens after a decade or so of insane leadership and an ignorance of news sold to you based on ratings? Sad sad sad..

This coming from someone who obviously has never met anyone in a Union. 

You should really get your facts somewhere trustworthy.

This sounds more like a San Fransisco bright idea.

Ever since America went on the anti-domestic violence crusade, typically, we have managed to hurry laws that should better made, or, not made at all.

My philosophy being “neutral principle,” relies heavily on the Constitutional tenets of “equal protection” and “due process.”  When Police are required to make an arrest during a DV investigation (almost always the man), or, as in cases of rape, the woman’s identity is protected but not the man, neither comes close to “equal protection?”

Note: The immediate and emotional response is almost always to protect the assumed victim’s identity.  What if you’ve got it wrong, and the damage of being falsely accused is is barely surmountable given the media and the prosecution?

As for “decriminalization”: I guess Topeka is going to have to do what Washington must soon do–be thrifty and cut superfluous costs.  GET IT!

Purveyor

I didn’t mean to sound as if I was chewing YOU out.  Sorry about that…

People who cannot convince, reduce themselves to namecalling. I abhor abortion. However, I know the risks that a woman takes in order to carry a child to term. I also believe that a woman’s body and her health care decisions are hers to make, not religious ideologues and certainly not the state’s. The repugs are currently trying to give PERSONHOOD TO AN EGG! That in essence declares that a woman’s body is a matter of PUBLIC DOMAIN FROM PUBERTY TO MENSES and criminalizing the use of some  forms of birth control and expect a woman to “grin and bear it” should she become impregnated by an act of VIOLENCE i.e. rape and incest..  I find that even more abhorrent. God breathed life into ADAM and EVE!!

Dorothy violently attacks cowardly lion.  Police do not respond.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzD6L8DmE-c

Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my!
Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my!
Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my!

Heaven forbid they fire a few bureaucrats to save money. They would rather allow women to be beaten up.

It’s ashame men abusing women. Women should get free guns from NRA and shoot the bastards.

Yes they are. Pot smokers are still being prosecuted.

Yes they are. Pot smokers are still being prosecuted.

It’s funny then, that this is happening in a red town, in a red state, exaclty the kind of place that has been assaulting women’s rights forever.