08-28-2020, 11:31 AM
(08-28-2020, 11:28 AM)fredtoast Wrote: In domestics officers are only required to arrest if they see some evidence of an assault. They are not required to arrest based on nothing other than a claim with no visible evidence.
Well no kidding, you have to have some type of physical injury for ANY assault to occur. But if there's a mark in a domestic, someone's going to jail. On the flip side, a guy can get his butt whipped outside a bar, tell the cops he doesn't want to press charges, and there are no charges.
And the victim of an assault can not end a case just because they don't want to. I have had cases where the DAs have felt that the victim is not cooperating out of fear or due to intimidation.. In those cases the state can still prosecute if they want to. It is rare but it does happen.
Rare is right.
