Originally Posted by
chicory 
I cannot imagine why it does not bring more serious charges!
I think it's exactly what Casey says in the video--there is a lack of awareness about how dangerous strangulation really is--how deadly, and how dangerous people who do it really are.
Everybody knows shooting is potentially deadly, and stabbing, but people think that if there are no visible marks or no loss of consciousness that it really wasn't that big a deal. It IS--it is a VERY big deal. It's why the education and awareness is so important. We do trainings that are focused JUST on investigating and prosecuting strangulation cases.