Do you believe it's easy to allege domestic violence?

What should happen after an allegation of domestic violence is made to police?" What SHOULD happen is that law-enforcement arrives on the spot, and tries to mitigate the situation, including ensuring that the victim is safe, the accused has been nabbed, the victim has received access to first-aid, the victim has a chance to speak to someone interpreters are called in if/when required. Then the police forwards the case to the DA in the US, the CPS in the UK, for instance.

The DA then decides whether or not it's worth prosecuting the accused, based on the facts of the case that they have been handed. This procedure has gone through a couple changes in the recent years. Before, say 2005, the police was allowed to "negotiate" a compromise between the victim and the accused, and because of this, a lot of DV calls didn't result in an actual charge being dealt to the accused.

Special Interest groups saw a problem with this, because 1/ statistics were then being recorded inaccurately and because of this, 2/ they didn't have enough statistics to prove that women were being hurt massively in DV situations - which made it harder for them to get funding requests approved. So this was changed. The Duluth model -- the controversial model which was based on ONE incident, which happened in ONE location, was adopted as the standard for cases that could possibly lead to charging perps of DV in large numbers.

Because of this, what REALLY happens is that law-enforcement is trained in such a way that they are encouraged to see women as victims and men as perps in most every case, even if/when the revers is true. Add to this situation the Violence Against Women Act, whose provisions, although they sound gender-neutral, also perpetuate an attitude whereby when the police arrive at the scene, they are trained to take into custody the male in the situation in nearly-every case if the alleged victim is female. They aren't even prepared, in most cases, to expect a male victim if/when there's a call to 911.

The vast majority of the time, the people involved just wanted police to arbitrate, they have no intention of not seeing each other or not living together, so most of the time it just ends when people calm down and the police leave.

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