The Justice Department says domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of abusive behavior used by one partner in any relationship to control another partner.
VOA: special.2009.02.28
Our pattern or practice investigation of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) marked the first time ever that the Justice Department found reasonable cause to believe that a police department had engaged in a pattern or practice of gender-biased policing.
Officials have even broached the idea of changing the pattern of work in the department so that firemen do not spend such large blocks of time together.
"And the nomination of Mr. Koh appears to be the beginning of a verytroubling pattern, " Lamborn told me, citing Justice Department nominees Dawn Johnsen ( assistant attorney general for legal counsel) and David Ogden (deputy attorney general) as cases of high-level Obama appointees who have histories of praising international law over U.S.-made law.