Reddit user Theophagist recently shared the all too common experiences of his friend and male domestic abuse survivor with the mensrights reddit :

The short of it, a buddy I play guitar with now and then is stupidly in this relationship with a meth-addict. She went haywire one night, got hold of a hammer, made a hole or two in some walls, threatened him, chased him outside screaming. He called the cops. They asked him if he thought she might hurt herself and which mental facility he'd like them to take her to. He asked why she wasn't being arrested instead. "If we arrest her the DA will see a domestic dispute and issue a warrant for your arrest."

That's how they roll in this part of California. Having done some volunteer work I know The DV classes are packed full of people with similar stories. It's truly corrupt, so much so I'm fairly afraid of naming any towns.

Good guy cops saved a buddy of mine from getting arrested by.. Not arresting his girlfriend for threatening him with a hammer. (self.MensRights)

More than a year after men and boys were given unquestionable equality under the 2013 reauthorization of VAWA, male survivors are routinely ignored and criminalized through programs funded under the program. These effects also impact their civil rights as parents under Title IV-D and Title IV-E as children are likely routinely endangered by being removed from the care, custody, and safety of their DV victim fathers, often handed over to their dangerous DV perpetrating mothers, while evidences of crimes and violence by the later parents are ignored.

The way male victims and their children are treated is a crime.

Literally.

I urge you to honor your duties to uphold the law and protect these survivors and their children. Until you act to protect male victims and their children, and to respect their rights to equality before the law, they must hope for justice and persevere.