Sexual harassment

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I'm going to expand on that a bit. To certain demographics, calling law enforcement is a hazard in and of itself. People of color; immigrants; queer and transsexual people; and heaven forbid if you're a cross between any of those groups. How often do we hear stories of people of color in the US who called the police, only to be thought to be the culprits of the crime they were reporting? If not shot outright?
Telling people to call the authorities comes from a position of privilege many victims of abuse do not benefit from.

This is also something you need to worry about.

Abuse victim calls the police...too bad, the victim is a minority, the police responds by arresting her instead on the spot...or even outright putting a bullet in her head.

You try to escape the abuser, and then the police gets you instead because they are racist, homophobic, corrupt, or any combination of all three.

Rock and a hard place people.

For minorities there truly is no way out.