National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

 

Washington Statewide 24-Hour Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-562-6025

 

New:

 

 

A GIFT OF WORDS

 

Contact Info

 

To contact Patty & Lane or ask Lane to speak to your group:

DV-IS-A-CRIME@

COMCAST.NET

  

Lane does not charge a speaker's fee.

 

This Site

 

News & Events

 

Photo display of officer-involved domestic fatalities

 

About Tacoma's new police dv policy.

 

About WA's new police DV Law

 

About The Crystal Judson Family Justice Center

 

About the new Federal legislation: The Crystal Judson Brame Domestic Violence Protocol Program

 

Copy of Washington lawmaker's open letter, "Invitation To All States"

 

Lane's favorite poem, The Guy in the Glass

 

Offsite Links

 

List of officer involved domestic violence links

 

The Crystal Judson Foundation

 

The Crystal Judson Brame Memorial Scholarship

Lane & Patty Judson's daughter Crystal was fatally shot by the husband she was divorcing - Tacoma Washington's Police Chief David Brame - one day after city officials publicly announced that her claims of abuse and threats would not be investigated. It was a very public murder-suicide, executed in a shopping center parking lot with their 2 young children running to them. Chief Brame died that day but Crystal lingered. All of us here in Tacoma held our breath praying for what couldn't be. She had taken a contact headshot with a police-issue glock. Her family stayed with her in the hospital for that week before she died, and it was during that time Lane was given the time to whisper to his daughter...

 

 

Much has been accomplished - together with others - from ordinary citizens to U.S. Congress members. Local policies changed, a new Washington State law was created, and federal money was appropriated.

But much is left yet to do as well.

The goal is set high, and many changes must come.

 

(Larger photo here)

 

 

Lane says:

All law enforcement agencies across the nation must adopt specific policy to handle officer-involved domestic violence, victims must have support & a way to safely report when they're afraid, officers who commit severe or repeated offenses must be held accountable, and law enforcement family members must be able to reach out for preventative support without it being used against them.

Accountability in an organization depends on those in charge. Lane is an old Navy Chief,
so knows;

"Leadership starts

 

at the top."

 

 

"We can spread the word far and wide about the anguish Crystal suffered. We can convey the message to those who are still suffering in silence that they are not alone. And we can help prevent this tragedy from ever happening again. That would be Crystal's greatest legacy,"

 

Brad Chatfield,quoted from article: 

'I Love My Mom So Much And She Loved Me';

 

 

 

 

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