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Last month, the Shawnee County District Attorney’s office, facing a 10% budget cut, announced that the county would no longer be prosecuting misdemeanors, including domestic violence cases, at the county level. Finding those cases suddenly dumped on the city and lacking resources of their own, the Topeka City Council is now considering repealing the part of the city code that bans domestic battery.



So, as Topeka considers decriminalizing domestic violence, some perpetrators have already benefited. "Since the county stopped prosecuting the crimes on September 8, 2011, it has turned back 30 domestic violence cases. Sixteen people have been arrested for misdemeanor domestic battery and then released from the county jail after charges weren't filed," reports Feministing.



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And here is what I have to contribute:
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

really?

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A Good Start.
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penitent
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some counties in america can't even afford to maintain the roads, they're turning back into dirt tracks, its the new dark ages people, theyre coming back, informercials for ducking stools coming soon to a screen near you
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tardy on these heaters
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there was an old Dark Ages?

o wait yeah. Europe. lol
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penitent
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no there wasnt actually but its a useful metaphor
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Nippon
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babyfinland posted:
there was an old Dark Ages?

o wait yeah. Europe. lol



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Goethestein posted:



whoaohho wait dudes i looked up Muslim History on Wikipedia because of this post and hold everything. looks like human civilization continued to develop even during what the European Christians called, later, the "Dark Ages"!!11 this changes everything hold on. whoa. whoa

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Nippon
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the word develop is a poor choice for human civilization as there is nothing it is developing towards
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um. maybe youve never seen anime before.... weve developed and we're there, man.