The Forensic Nurse

This week a 911 operator in  Nashville, Tennessee was been fired after he was recorded on a taped 911 call stating that he didn’t “give a s—” about what happened to a woman who had just called to report her ex-boyfriend was threatening her.

Frank Roth, the man who made the statement didnt actually utter those words to the woman who called in. According to Emergency Communications Center spokeswoman Amanda Sluss said, Roth was in training during the February incident and was fired a month later.

Roth made the comments after promising to the woman that police would arrive shortly to assist the woman who was reporting her ex-boyfriend held her at knifepoint and later was threatening her.

The statement was made after hanging up with her but while still being recorded, he said, “I really don’t give a s— what happens to you.”

It took the police nearly three hours to respond to the scene after the initial 911 call.

So why should you give a s—?

According to the American Institute on Domestic Violence, health-related costs of rape, physical assault, stalking, and homicide by intimate partners exceed $5.8 billion each year.

Intimate partner violence victims lose nearly 8.0 million days of paid work each year - the equivalent of more than 32,000 full-time jobs and nearly 5.6 million days of household productivity!

Indirectly we are all shouldering a much greater burder than many of us realize. As a result of domestic violence, you will pay greater cost in health care coverage, longer wait times in the Emergency room, police diversion to respond to these domestic assaults, other co-workers in the office need to work harder to pick up the slack when victims are hospitalized, or unable to attend work.

More Statistics on Domestic Violence from AIDV:

Your Corporate Peers

68% of senior executives surveyed agreed that their company’s financial performance would benefit from addressing the issue of domestic violence among its employees.

94% of corporate security directors rank domestic violence as a high security risk.

78% of Human Resource Directors identify domestic violence as a substantial employee problem.

56% of corporate leaders are personally aware of specific employees who are affected by domestic violence.

60% of senior executives said that domestic violence has a harmful effect on their company’s productivity.

The Human Factor

85-95% of all domestic violence victims are female.

Over 500,00 women are stalked by an intimate partner each year.

5.3 million women are abused each year.
1,232 women are killed each year by an intimate partner.
Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women.

Women are more likely to be attacked by someone they know rather than by a stranger.

Domestic Violence in the Workplace

Homicide is the leading cause of death for women in the workplace.

Of the approximately 1.7 million incidents of workplace violence that occur in the US every year, 18,700 are committed by an intimate partner: a current or former spouse, lover, partner, or boyfriend/girlfriend.

Of Battered Workers:

96% experience problems at work due to abuse

74% are harassed while at work by their abuser

56% are late to work

28% leave work early

54% miss entire days of work