Taylor said:
The only thing on the page you linked to is :
Do you have any links to the real story and the movie? I'd be interested in reading more about it but all I'm finding is information on the movie. I'd like to see exactly how the police failed her against a violent spouse.
1985 - Thurman vs. Torrington. Tracy Thurman wins a case against Connecticut police for failing to protect her from husband’s violence when he brutally beat her and slashed her throat in front of the police, she sued the city and the police department for failing to protect her. Suit leads to CT’s passage of mandatory arrest law. The City of Torrington was notified of the "repeated threats of violence," Thurman, 595 F. Supp. at 1525, threats of death and maiming, made against Tracy Thurman by her husband Charles. The City did nothing. Then he nearly killed her by stabbing her with a knife and left her a paraplegic for life. The City was found guilty of violating her rights to equal protection of the laws and she was awarded 2.3 million dollars.
Thurman v. City of Torrington
Tracy Thurman case
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Nineteen years ago, a woman named Tracey Thurman was nearly beaten to death in Torrington, Connecticut, before the police came to her aid. Though Thurman had reported her estranged husband's threats and harassment to the police repeatedly for over a year, it wasn't until she called in utter desperation, fearing for her life, that the police responded. They sent only one officer, however, who arrived 25 minutes after the call was placed, pulled up across the street from Thurman's house, and sat in his car while Thurman's husband chased her across the yard, slashed her with a knife, stabbed her in the neck, knocked her to the ground, and then stabbed her 12 more times.
Permanently disfigured, Tracey Thurman brought what became a landmark case to the Supreme Court, which found that the city police had violated her 14th Amendment right to "equal protection of the laws" and awarded her $2.3 million in compensatory damages. Almost immediately, the State of Connecticut adopted a new, comprehensive domestic-violence law calling for the arrest of assaultive spouses. In the year after the measure took effect, the number of arrests for domestic assault increased 92 percent, from 12,400 to 23,830.
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