Essay On Mandatory Arrest

An improved law in the case of domestic violence is the mandatory arrest law, before the law was changed when there was a call for domestic violence law enforcement would travel to the location of the disturbance and try to mediate and separate the couple. “As a result, there have been several incidents where spouses would get seriously injured or killed by their abusers, in response victim advocates have lobbied and now mandatory arrest laws have been implemented.” (Find Law). Since the law has been reformed to mandatory arrest, police departments across the country have data stating that mandatory arrest is more effective than the previous procedure as mediation and separating the pair. The mandatory arrest law works well for law enforcement because the officers are taking action to eliminate the threat of the aggressor from the victim, by doing so the aggressor and the victim can be separated and cool down, also by removing the aggressor from the location the victim may not be intimidated and would be willing to file charges …show more content…
It is difficult for a school district and law enforcement to find the direct source of cyber bullying, when an image or comment is posted online, many people can save the information to their personal device or share and repost it on social media. Therefore, school officials and law enforcement have to find a needle in a haystack. Another difficulty for law enforcement to combat is that there are no laws that are specifically for cyber bullying. There are current laws that are can align with cyber bullying as; harassment by a computer, death threats and bodily injury, and stalking. Therefore, if a person would like to press charges against the bully, law enforcement and the prosecutor would not be able to charge the individual on cyber bullying, the person would have to be charged with harassment, stalking, and death