FOOTNOTES

1. For example, in the Macias case, the trained law enforcement professional should have been able to piece together repeated, harassing phone calls, followed by a gift of flowers and a romantic card and then by contacting the victim at the grocery store as a pattern of escalating intimidation and stalking. The trained law enforcement and prosecutorial professional should have been able to communicate in a commonly understood language so that a stalking charge would have been filed, resulting in the arrest of the perpetrator.

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