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Spouse Tracking for Protection

According to the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic Violence, 1.3 million women and 835,000 men in the United States are physically assaulted by a domestic partner every year. In 2000, 1,247 of those women and 440 men were domestic murder victims. These starting statistics cause spouses all over the country to wonder, “Am I safe in my own home?” Police and government officials are understandably concerned with this problem, as well, and in recent years steps have been taken to protect families using GPS Spouse Tracking.

Selami Ozdemir shot and killed his wife in their West Haven, Connecticut home only 24 hours after an arrest for violating an order of protection. A man earmarked for recurrent violence, Ozdemir had proven himself a controlling wife beater. His neighbors had witnessed him striking his wife right outside their home in the middle of the night. However, despite their knowledge about Ozdemir’s track record police could do little to protect young Shengyl Rasim from her husband on that cold January night. After killing her he turned the gun on himself.

Spouse tracking using GPS systems could be the answer to protecting innocent victims of domestic violence, say Connecticut state officials. These GPS systems, worn by violence offenders, would carefully track their whereabouts. If, for example, a violent husband who was court ordered to stay away from his wife stepped within a certain distance of her home he would be quickly picked up by local police.

Backed by a $140,000 Stimulus Grant Connecticut intends to join the other seventeen US states that use Spouse Tracking to protect their citizens. GPS devices will be divvied up among the local precincts and worn by dangerous offenders most likely to attack. These tagged offenders will then be carefully monitored by police. While the technology cannot guarantee the protection of potential victims it will certainly provide a step in the right direction as Connecticut seeks to protect innocents.

If Selami Ozdemir had been wearing a GPS Spouse Tracing system his wife would likely be alive today. Police would have picked him up before he made it within a mile of his wife’s home. GPS tracking systems are certainly not a cure-all for domestic violence, but in cases like Shengyl Rasim’s it could have made the difference between life and death. It is time for GPS technology to take its place in the world of justice.

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