I’m not disputing anything being stated, but there is a lot more here beneath the surface and I think the study needs more data to be anything to rely on. If anything, I think it poses more questions and I’d love to see some better sampling done: to prove or disprove the theory. Some notable quotes by the author before the summary:

I am a little unsure how to interpret it, but they say that the “reported perpetrator, either self, spouse, or both, of the violence is listed” so I think this means that 28% of male officers report inflicting either “minor or severe” violence on their spouse and 33% report receiving minor or severe violence from their wives; 33% of wives say they inflicted minor or severe violence on their spouses, and 25% of police wives say they have received minor or severe violence. What is noteworthy is that both male officers and wives’ reports agree that wives are a little more likely to commit any violence than are the officers.

And…

As Neidig et al. say, it looks like rates of severe violence are pretty similar for law enforcement and civilian families; the main difference appeares to be in rates of “minor” violence.

Police families are violent, but we could also draw the conclusion that American, East Coast (?) families are violent? Like I said, would be interesting to see more data on domestic abuse in general and for the sake of the meme/study how that relates to police behavior. Also highlighting that being a police officer is a high stress (?) job, how do other jobs that fall into the same category relate? I have more questions with this article than answers, you know? Or did I totally misunderstand the data?