Washington State Senate Democrats announcement.
On April 24, 2023, the governor signed into law Senate Bill 5070, sponsored by Sen. T’wina Nobles (D-Fircrest), to make permanent the Crime Victims Compensation Program. Legislation establishing the program first passed unanimously in 2021.
“In the midst of horrific circumstances, survivors are telling us that this program benefits them immensely,” said Nobles. “By making it permanent, we’re telling survivors they deserve access to treatment and justice.”
According to the Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention, 68% of women who report domestic violence suffered near-fatal strangulation. Forensic examinations are the best resource to hold abusers accountable, but they can cost upwards of $1,400. The Crime Victims Compensation Program has played a crucial role in ensuring that survivors of nonfatal strangulation receive appropriate treatment and that perpetrators are held responsible.
Strangulation involves external compression of a survivors’ airway and blood vessels, causing reduced air and blood flow to the brain. There may be minimal or no external signs of injury despite life-threatening internal injuries, including traumatic brain injury. Injuries may present after the assault or much later and may persist for months and even years post-assault. Survivors who are strangled multiple times face a greater risk of traumatic brain injury.
The Crime Victims Compensation Program was created to help victims with the many costs associated with violent crime. The program provides financial compensation to crime victims for such expenses as medical bills, loss of financial support, and funeral expenses. The pilot program was originally set to end June 30, 2023. This legislation makes the program permanent.
The legislation passed unanimously in both the Senate and House. The bill contains an emergency clause and takes effect on June 30.
The Legislature passes a crime victims compensation program. but do nothing to hold criminals accountable. The Politicians are protecting the criminals, they are the problem!
Rather than address the root of our crime problem, the matriarchal Marxists attack the “man problem” that lives in their heads.
Who sticks around to be strangled multiple times?
Gun abolition, emasculation of boys, cancel culture, divisive politics, gaslighting, soft on crime, arbitrary law enforcement, punishing success, rewarding failure, collective bullying while claiming victimhood, and now this law to do what? You voted for soft on crime, remember?
What percentage of people are being strangled around here?
No good man wants to harm another person and the vast majority don’t, except in self defense or of those we love.
I can’t relate to the supposed world, Representative Nobles represents.
There isn’t a damned thing left around here that I, as a white conservative man, have representation for.
It’s like bring chained to a chair on “The View”.
For lack of respect, the only honorable option for a traditional man today, is to walk away from the hate traps, and just keep walking.
The infrastructure wouldn’t make it to sundown.