re: #132 wlewisiii

I know. I just can’t go there. Hurts too much.

The only cop in my hometown who died in the last fucking century was killed in a “domestic disturbance”. They named the shelter for him but that’s a damned thin medal of honor.

It took me awhile to find this, but I’ll post it here because this one place that will actually care:

“In Eau Claire, Wisconsin in the mid 1970’s a group of concerned community women developed the idea of a Women’s Community Center. In 1976, before the Women’s Community Center opened, they received a call from the police department asking them to provide shelter for a woman and her children fleeing a domestic violence situation. The group opened the Refuge House in response to that call, and the Refuge House (incorporated in 1977) has been providing services to victims of domestic and/or sexual violence and abuse ever since, as the first domestic abuse shelter in the state of Wisconsin. In the late 1970’s the Refuge House moved into a church parsonage in Eau Claire. On October 6,1982 Eau Claire Police Officer Robert Bolton was killed when responding to a call for help from the Refuge House. Shortly after that the shelter was moved to a larger property in Eau Claire and the name of the organization was changed to Bolton Refuge House in his honor. In 2010 Bolton Refuge House acquired a much larger facility, which has been rennovated to provide comfortable living space for victims of domestic abuse and or sexual assault and their children.”