Comments by "Jim Werther" (@jimwerther) on "Sinister Betrayals | “48 Hours" Full Episodes" video.

 @liseklerekoper2441 Blaming the police is utter nonsense. She wanted Brian, he was a danger to her. Not everything is the police's fault, really.
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Not the cops' fault, really.
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Blaming those cops is utter foolishness
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The cops have zero culpability. None.
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@craftilady If they are not responsible, then don't blame them. Gabbi Petito was legally an adult and chose to live with Brian Laundrie. Putting any attention on the police is absurd.
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@TS-zl7wl Go explain what the officers did wrong, and how not arresting her contributed to her death.
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 @liseklerekoper2441 Just stop. She wanted to go back him, which is normally the case. The law can't stop her from doing so. Cops have no responsibility for her death.
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@craftilady Okay, happy to hear. But I daresay that all the training in the world would have made no difference. She blamed herself. He blamed her. Police are not psychotherapists. What should they have done, flown her home? If the same situation happens tomorrow with a different couple, nothing the cops do will change a thing. Ultimately, the girl will go back to the abuser, and it ends however it ends. The same people who blame the cops here - not you - are undoubtedly those who have been hollering about the cops being overly heavyhanded and abusive. Here they were gentle and understanding. Some people are never happy.
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 @triciahughes4331 She was an adult. And she went right back to him. Blaming the cops is foolish.
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@craftilady Very fair answer. While I believe that the focus placed on the cops here is absurd, if in fact the ideas you raised could be widely implemented, and in fact could save the lives of even a small percentage of these girls, then sure, sounds like a wonderful idea. All that said, I can think of other situations where such counseling could be more useful, such as a)in high school, and b)when female victims of clear, obvious, undeniable abuse return to their abuser, as almost always happens. This case was far murkier.
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@BOOSIEHUBBARD Do you believe that shouting at everyone is an effective way of getting your point across? It isn't. It is, however, effective at irritating people.
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@annychest718 It's not about you. The only one who would have arrested was her. Either way, she's going right back to him. Not the cops' fault.
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@liseklerekoper2441 The law would have required arresting her, not him. Why is that relevant to the ultimate resolution?
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 @craftilady You're seriously upset at the cops for not arresting Gabby? That's absurd. Get a clue.
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@craftilady You're upset that they didn't arrest Gabby Petito? How would that have helped her? That's just Monday Morning Quarterbacking. If you had been there at the time, without knowing how things eventually turned around, you would have praised them for their restraint, as I'm sure Gabby P did at that moment. Their arresting her would have changed the end of that story not one iota. Blaming them is a red herring. So, who is responsible? Well, obviously Brian Laundrie. Among those whose level of responsibility exceeds that of the cops would include a)Laundrie's parents, b)Gabby herself, c)Her mother and step-father, and d)her father and step-mother. And I'm not saying it's their fault either. But what a ridiculous stretch blaming the cops for being understanding and not arresting her.
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@craftilady Yes, but it is totally irrelevant. If any focus should place anywhere aside from Brian Laundrie, then it should be on Gabby for not getting away from him, and on his parents for raising a lout and then protecting him. Even mentioning the police is way out in leftfield, and a lousy job of "journalism" by CBS.
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@craftilady Explain a)what the police should have seen here, and b)what they should have done differently.
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@ApotropaicV The dual restraining order would have likely been impossible, and certainly useless. Because when both parties want to be together, the only way to keep them apart is by keeping one or both in prison, which they could not have legally done. Blaming the police here is a massive red herring.
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@TS-zl7wl What should those officers have done differently? How should they have figured out everything about a couple they'd met five minutes earlier? And how would it have changed a thing about what ultimately happened?
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