Domestic Violence: How policies affect?
Some people have been questioning the form in which the police department acts or responds to domestic violence. There was one time in which two couples were arguing, the situation was getting worse each day until the fights and physical threats started. The woman was really affected and needed help. She called the police because she could not handle it anymore; she thought that was the best solution. Most of the time, police departments have relied on mandatory arrest policies because it is the best solution according to their opinion. But what is most important is to find if whether they really work because if they do not work that means that people can be more in danger than be helped. Mandatory arrests …show more content…
In the article “Mandatory Arrests Increase Domestic Violence” by Radha Iyengar, she “found that intimate partner homicides increased by about 60 percent in states with mandatory arrest laws,” and the number of victims have increased throughout the years since then (Iyengar). This shows that police officers who have been relying on mandatory arrests are doing more harm than good because the number of homicides have increased drastically in response to these policies. Some states have not passed these policies because they must know that they are not reliable to end the problem of domestic violence. Some people think that mandatory arrests are the best solution to end the problem of family violence; the truth is that instead of helping end the problem, it has worsened the situation. In the article “Domestic Violence Programs Are Ineffective and Sometimes Harmful” by SAVE (Stop Abusive and Violent Environments), suggests that, “evidence consistently shows mandatory arrest policies cause more harm than good... Lawrence Sherman, director of the Milwaukee study, has termed mandatory arrest policies a ‘failure’ and recommended that such policies be repealed” (SAVE). This shows that the mandatory arrest policies have been ineffective; instead of providing support to stop domestic violence, …show more content…
Other experiments have tried to replicate the same results, but the results have varied in each experiments and that means that the mandatory arrest policies are not efficient. In the article “Mandatory Arrests Increase Domestic Violence” by Radha Iyengar, she states that in “the Minnesota Domestic Violence Experiment. The results of this experiment were used by US Department of Justice, academics, legislators, and criminal justice spokespersons to justify and support mandatory arrest policies” (Iyengar). Iyengar explains that the mandatory arrest policies came from an experiment made in Minnesota which demonstrates that the government only used support from only one source and did not have other results from other experiments. Later on experiments trying to replicate the same results from the original failed. In the article “Domestic Violence Programs Are Ineffective and Sometimes Harmful” by SAVE (Stop Abusive and Violent Environments), it says that “follow-up studies failed to confirm the Minneapolis results. In Colorado Springs, researchers [R.A. Berk and others] concluded, ‘An arrest can sometimes make things worse.’ And in Milwaukee, arrests were found to cause an overall increase in partner violence among Black women” (SAVE). This shows that mandatory arrests can have
Some people have been questioning the form in which the police department acts or responds to domestic violence. There was one time in which two couples were arguing, the situation was getting worse each day until the fights and physical threats started. The woman was really affected and needed help. She called the police because she could not handle it anymore; she thought that was the best solution. Most of the time, police departments have relied on mandatory arrest policies because it is the best solution according to their opinion. But what is most important is to find if whether they really work because if they do not work that means that people can be more in danger than be helped. Mandatory arrests …show more content…
In the article “Mandatory Arrests Increase Domestic Violence” by Radha Iyengar, she “found that intimate partner homicides increased by about 60 percent in states with mandatory arrest laws,” and the number of victims have increased throughout the years since then (Iyengar). This shows that police officers who have been relying on mandatory arrests are doing more harm than good because the number of homicides have increased drastically in response to these policies. Some states have not passed these policies because they must know that they are not reliable to end the problem of domestic violence. Some people think that mandatory arrests are the best solution to end the problem of family violence; the truth is that instead of helping end the problem, it has worsened the situation. In the article “Domestic Violence Programs Are Ineffective and Sometimes Harmful” by SAVE (Stop Abusive and Violent Environments), suggests that, “evidence consistently shows mandatory arrest policies cause more harm than good... Lawrence Sherman, director of the Milwaukee study, has termed mandatory arrest policies a ‘failure’ and recommended that such policies be repealed” (SAVE). This shows that the mandatory arrest policies have been ineffective; instead of providing support to stop domestic violence, …show more content…
Other experiments have tried to replicate the same results, but the results have varied in each experiments and that means that the mandatory arrest policies are not efficient. In the article “Mandatory Arrests Increase Domestic Violence” by Radha Iyengar, she states that in “the Minnesota Domestic Violence Experiment. The results of this experiment were used by US Department of Justice, academics, legislators, and criminal justice spokespersons to justify and support mandatory arrest policies” (Iyengar). Iyengar explains that the mandatory arrest policies came from an experiment made in Minnesota which demonstrates that the government only used support from only one source and did not have other results from other experiments. Later on experiments trying to replicate the same results from the original failed. In the article “Domestic Violence Programs Are Ineffective and Sometimes Harmful” by SAVE (Stop Abusive and Violent Environments), it says that “follow-up studies failed to confirm the Minneapolis results. In Colorado Springs, researchers [R.A. Berk and others] concluded, ‘An arrest can sometimes make things worse.’ And in Milwaukee, arrests were found to cause an overall increase in partner violence among Black women” (SAVE). This shows that mandatory arrests can have