Cops don’t protect women. Food, housing, and money do.

Cops don’t protect women. Food, housing, and money do.

Photo by Jakub Żerdzicki on Unsplash. In 1995, Mike Harris took power and promptly slashed Ontario’s welfare rates by about 22 percent. Even before the cuts, welfare condemned people to life below the poverty line. But the new, lower rates were almost unsurvivable.  A year later, evidence suggested that the cuts had led to increased intimate partner violence. Violence shelters reported that women, inquiring about checking in, would find out how …