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Malia Politzer is the executive editor of piqd.com, and an award-winning long-form journalist based out of Spain. She specializes in reporting on migration, international development, human rights issues and investigative reporting.
Originally from California, she's lived in China, Spain, Mexico and India, and reported from various countries in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Her primary beats relate to immigration, economics and international development. She has published articles in Huffington Post Highline, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue India, Mint, Far Eastern Economic Review, Foreign Policy, Reason Magazine, and the Phoenix New Times. She is also a regular contributor to Devex.
Her Huffington Post Highline series, "The 21st Century Gold Rush" won awards from the National Association of Magazine Editors, Overseas Press Club, and American Society of Newspaper Editors. She's also won multiple awards for feature writing in India and the United States.
Her reporting has been supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Institute For Current World Affairs, and the Global Migration Grant.
Degrees include a BA from Hampshire College and MS from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where was a Stabile Fellow at the Center for Investigative Journalism.
The Super Predators: When Your Abuser Is A Cop
In this chilling Huffington Post Highline exposé, journalists Melissa Jeltson and Dana Liebelson write about the most vulnerable victims of domestic abuse: those whose abusers work in law enforcement.
We follow the narrative of Sarah Loiselle, a woman who married a cop and ended up mired in an unending cycle of abuse—who, like many victims of domestic abuse, found herself unable to escape her abuser. However, for women whose abusers are law enforcement officials, the challenges are perhaps even greater. Trained in interrogation methods, police-officers-turned-domestic-abusers can be master manipulators. And due to the brotherhood of cops, victims of domestic abuse are unlikely to get any help or support from other officers should they report their abuse.
This is why, perhaps, "If domestic abuse is one of the most under-reported crimes, domestic abuse by police officers is virtually an invisible one. It is frighteningly difficult to track or prevent—and it has escaped America’s most recent awakening to the many ways in which some police misuse their considerable powers."
According to a 1991 survey of 700 cops referenced in the piece, as many as 40% admitted they had “behaved violently against their spouse and children” in the past six months. And in a 1992 survey of 385 male officers, 28% admitted to "to acts of physical aggression against a spouse in the last year—including pushing, kicking, hitting, strangling and using a knife or gun." Both studies suggested that incidents of violence were likely under-reported.
At a time when the behavior of police officers—and the larger culture that that behavior reflects—is under the magnifying glass in the US for a myriad of other reasons, this article is a well reported, well written and chilling must read.
