[Clemenza]

A restraining order will do nothing for the truly obsessive and emotionally disturbed. Thankfully, my now brother in law was home when my sister's disturbed ex-boyfriend broke into the house years ago.

For those not familiar with the area, Montclair is a very liberal town just NW of Newark. The population ranges from multimillionaires and billionaires all the way down to the welfare class (but, oddly enough, not too many immigrants of any stripe/income). This YMCA is just north of Bloomfield Avenue, in an OK nabe between the ghetto and the wealthy.

[NewJerseyJoe]

Montclair is one of those few towns where “the other side of the tracks” has a literal meaning.

[Smedley]

The trouble with DV is that there are no standards and no real protection. Verbal allegations is all it takes in a court to get a person (usually the husband) thrown in the street, because a judge is more concerned about protecting his butt than actually doing his job. Sadly enough, the judges' are forced into this mode of behavior by the press and PC NAZIs.

The result is a lot of injustice on one hand, and alot of useless Protective Orders on the other.

Oh, and the courts have a way of allowing bad evidence in and excluding perfectly good evidence in order to get the result they want.

My heart goes out to women who are abused, but those who abuse the DV laws need to do manditory jailtime.