‘The system let me down’: Survey says that’s how domestic violence victims feel

Bexar County District Court Judge Monique Diaz has served as co-chair of the city-county Collaborative Commission on Domestic Violence. “We’ve done a lot, but there’s clearly so much work left to be done,” she says.That’s the prevailing theme of a new analysis of domestic violence in San Antonio and how well police, prosecutors, courts and nonprofit agencies support the victims of abuse.

The analysis was conducted by Lily Casura, a social worker and doctoral student in applied demography at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has studied domestic violence, and she co-wrote on how women in San Antonio fare in terms of health, employment, income, housing, safety and other indicators.In 2020-21, Casura and two other UTSA researchers conducted a community-wide survey on domestic violence and COVID-19 for the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District.Of 1,435 respondents, two-thirds had personally experienced domestic violence. Casura focused on a portion of the survey where participants could provide open-ended comments.

“The times the police interrogated me with my abuser present,” the respondent wrote. “I was too scared to say the injuries were nonconsensual with my abuser present. The last time, I insisted that I didn’t consent to be beaten and raped and the police said they didn’t have enough evidence to prosecute because the judge would believe that I consented to be abused.”

Casura embarked on the analysis earlier this year after the San Antonio Express-News editorial board criticized the city-county

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