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profit organization in Washington, D.C., and the Minneapolis Police Department indicated that violence is twice as likely to recur in families where the police try to mediate a dispute or send the assailant away for a few hours rather than arrest the offender.
"We arrest batterers without exception," said Minneapolis Police Chief Anthony Bouza. "And in the end, it saves time and money because we don't have as many repeat calls."
Bouza said that although the police saw fewer repeat calls, they had received more first-time calls since the uniform policy of arrest was adopted.
Jerry Little, Lawrence city attorney, said that he thought police should not let the woman decide whether to arrest an abuser but that he understood why police were hesitant to arrest.
"They don't want to go through a lot of paperwork and spend a lot of time when they know nothing will get done," he said.
Patrol submit less severe cases of domestic violence to Little and more serious cases to the Correctional Facility.
The policy of both attorneys, except in extreme or repeatedly reported cases of abuse, is to let victims decide whether to prosecute the abuser.
"Nine times out of 10, I'll drop the charges if she doesn't want to testify," Little said. Flory said that he had the final authority on whether to prosecute but that he also considered the victim's input.
Of the 15 to 20 domestic violence reports Flory receives each month, only two or three result in convictions, and most jail terms are suspended, he said.
If an abuser is sentenced to a jail term, he usually spends 10 days or less in jail, and it could be several months after the incident before the abuser serves the jail time, he said.
The Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, 336 Missouri St., formed a men's anger control group in fall 1984.
Most of the 24 men who have attended the group since the program began were ordered to participate as part of a diversionary agreement. A diversionary agreement usually is reached through plea bargaining and allows abusers to be placed in programs including counseling while on probation and community service duty in lieu of
The anger control group, which needs a minimum of four men, was discontinued in March.
"We have the capacity to run the group," said Karen Ushman, a social worker who had counseled the group. "We just don't have the men."
"You need the power of group treatment to break through the guy's denial," she said. "Some of the men were helped a lot. It's been practical effective in other parts of the country."
prosecution.
"If not enough people are coming to the attention of the courts, it's not going to be a viable
"It is important for us and the police and the court system to exchange information. What we need to do is learn how to make all those systems work together."
Mary
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I understand why women won't press charges. I never pressed charges relating to abuse. If they would have taken me away to somewhere nice and safe and said, 'Do you want to press charges?' I would have said ves.
But when he'll be in that house and you know he's be back . . . there's no way.
I know women who have pressed charges. The men have come back and got them because of it. These women are permanently disfigured now.
If he ever touches me now, I would press charges. He would be hitting another person now; not his wife who is just another piece of his property.
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