If they are assaulting women on their own private time, why post this? Domestic violence on their own time has no impact on their ability to do their jobs.

While I generally assume most men beat their wives, including and especially policemen (sorry men, I have bad anecdotal experiences...or my friends do anyway), this is just a TRO...they are pretty standard for divorce cases. And threatening homelessness? Mean, yes. But not that bad, and certainly isn't on a par with DV.

I hope that if he is an abuser, there is evidence, but a court filing is definitely not that.

@1: Wrong. Cops who beat their spouses are pretty much definitely not qualified to make tea, let alone their better half's bed.

@JSL: I feel sick from having to post the last comment, but yes.

I guess the PI is out of business, so it's up to the stranger to pick up the cliched cop beat.

"Seattle Police Department spokesman Sean Whitcomb says the department is aware of the protection order and is monitoring the situation. “At this point and time, this appears to be strictly civil and we are not taking any action,” Whitcomb says."

Yeah. Ummm. Isn't that the same line of crap that the Tacoma Police Department put out a week or so before their Police Chief shot his wife (and then himself) in front of their young children a few years back?

Is this entire article about Scott Moss and his wife? If so,Check your facts.Only twenty percent of what you print was true.

Bless you for posting this. My mom used to try to tutor a kid who'd received a head injury as an infant in a domestic violence injury from his cop father. Who remained on the force.

My home town has serious domestic violence issues, enough for some of the solutions to be cited in outdated sociology textbooks. This was originally, to our knowledge, a result of Vietnam. Probably didn't begin with Vietnam though. Probably isn't over either, as several young people I met in a dive bar there a couple years ago had been recruited as clandestine assassins, and the talkative ones had already been wounded. The haircuts gave them away as special ops, but they didn't know that yet.

@7: "domestic violence injury."

"Domestic violence incident."

@ 1
Are you on crack.
Like as if it is ok to suggest abuse to someone on your own private time (meaning when you are not working). Violence knows no borders. You can't turn it on and off.
Actually I think your post is the dumbest post I have ever read on the Strangers blog.

@ #1 It does not matter if he did this on duty or off duty. He is still a scum sucking slime and piece of shit.

"He is still a scum sucking slime and piece of shit."

@ 10,

As are some of the commenters on Slog.

@ #11 Especially the ones who justify domestic violence. When are those people going to accept that this is the 21st centruy. Wives do not nedd to obey their husbands and women do not have to defer to men under any circumstances--ever.

An attorney and a cop.

This sounds like the common case where an alpha female picks up a beta male as a "trophy husband" but then abandons him...leaving him frustrated and erupting into violence.

Of course, I'm not condoning the guys actions...but there's usually a lot more to these stories.

Cop wife needs to have a backup plan to shoot the son of a bitch when he starts to beat her - with his gun.

I want to go to that trial.

My older sissy was a cop and married two cops, both were ass holes who beat her all the time. Family intervened, moved her out in a day, supported her in horrible divorce - cops know the court system and get dirty with tricky attorneys - but - she is alive and doing well, still very single.

Title: I have no solution, but it ain't pretty.

@13: It doesn't say she's an attorney.

@3
please look up the words "irony" and "uptight Seattleite."

Thank you.

@9
see above.

Thank you.

@10
see above.

Thank you.

@13
please look up the definition of "nit picking."

Thank you.

@16: #1 was not irony. It may have been intended sarcastically or satirically, but I don't find it a very compelling example of either rhetorical device. So, your telling me to look up "irony" is like Alanis Morrissette telling me to do so.

And I'm not a Seattleite. I moved here last year.

@17 You moved to the right place!

@2 How absurd....

None of you Whining Libs found a way to somehow blast Lynnwood Police as well? Come on, be creative....you can do it!