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Letter: Focus wrong on domestic violence

By Ed Nelson, Vancouver
Published: March 6, 2020, 6:00am

Let’s turn the tables and force changes in the bad guy’s behavior, make him afraid of physically contacting the victim, make him fear the knock on his door and an officer arresting him for violation of the restraining order.

We certainly have the technology to:

1. Provide the victim with a transmitter that will produce an ear-piercing noise on the suspect’s phone if he gets within 1,000 feet.

2. Provide the suspect with a non-removable wrist or biceps or calf band and the victim with a transmitter. If the suspect physically approaches the victim she could press a button and deliver a taser shock to the bad guy to knock him down.

3. Provide a receiver-transmitter arrangement so when the bad guy gets his car within 1,000 feet of the victim’s car, his car shuts off and can’t be re-started without a mechanic.

Each of these situations would be transmitted to a central monitoring center which would dispatch law enforcement to pick him up and jail him.

We need to stop making the victim live in fear and punish the man. Make it inconvenient, annoying and, yes, painful for him to approach her in any way.

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