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fore he could make an arrest unless the wife was willing to sign a warrant.
Naturally an abuser would behave in the presence of police; and most battered women were afraid of revenge if they signed a warrant. Now an officer may arrest on “probably cause” when responding to a domestic dispute.
This change is expected to raise the conviction rate because an officer can still testify in court if the wife wants to drop charges. It is quite common for women to drop charges either because they believe their husbands will change or because they fear a worse beating after their husbands get free.
The difficulty of conviction has always made domestic cases frustrating to police. The results never justified the cost. Approximately 40 percent of all police injuries occur in the course of domestic quarrel calls. Nearly one-fifth of all officers killed in America were responding to spouse abuse cases. Yet most cases never went to court.
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