You're absolutely right.
Among other things, I remember the first time I reported an assault. I was asked whether he had hit me. I said that he hit me here, there, and that he had raped me. What more did they want? What about internal injuries? Yes, I was physically struck, but it doesn't always start that way. Things escalate, and that needs to be taken into account. When I went to the police station to tell them what was happening, they pointed out that there were no signs of injury. Come on, what kind of an answer is that? There are injuries, internal ones.
I often went to the police station to report and make a complaint, because my spouse never complied with his conditions. I remember on one occasion when a policewoman asked me what he had done. I was on edge because it had just happened. I said that he had grabbed me in a particular way, and I tried to demonstrate it on her. She told me not to touch her. All I wanted to do was show her what and how I had just experienced. I wasn't actually going to act it out. I did it automatically, and ended up being rebuked by the policewoman.