Domestic Violence?

Question

Will/can someone still be prosecuted for domestic violence if the victim 'drops it' or refuses to testify?

Answer 1

Yes. Actually in CA...im not sure if this applies to the entire U.S.....If officers go to your house becuase of a domestic violence call (usually ends up becoming spousal abuse) if the officer sees any kind of brusing or marks or just any sign that there was a fight, the officer will arrest the wife or husband regardless if the other person wants to press charges.

A lot of times people call because there wife or husband hit them and they just want to scare the other party. But what happens is that the officer gets there and maybe sees a bruised lip and tells the wife or husband that they are taking the other party to jail...people freak out and start crying and say that they dont want to press charges but at that point it doesnt matter anymore. The officer has to make the arrest regardless if the other party is not interested in pressing charges.

Answer 2

I would believe you a call came in three or more time a week over a Domestic Violence in any community, something would be done to stop this harassment.
The Police Department through out the US really do not like Domestic Situations because it takes a lot of time and separation on the officers behalf to iron the situation out, and if this keeps up well you put it together. Who is protecting who?
Steven

Answer 3

yes. once the person has been arrested for domestic violence it does not matter whether the victim presses charges or not.

Answer 4

Conservative studies indicate that two million women are assaulted by their partners each year, but experts believe that the true incidence of partner violence is probably closer to four million per year.
Thirty percent of American women report that they have been physically abused by their husband or boyfriend at one time or another.
Americans estimate that half of all men, on average, have physically abused their wives or girlfriends at one time or another.
Americans continue to believe that the majority of fellow citizens would do nothing if the man next door was abusing his wife or girlfriend. 84% report they would be concerned about their own safety if they tried to help in a specific situation of domestic violence.
Forty-six percent of Americans continue to agree that "men sometimes physically abuse women because they are stressed out or drunk; it's not that they mean to hurt them."
Thirty-eight percent of Americans agree "some wives provoke their husbands into physically abusing them."
Twenty-four percent of American women have been hurt or injured by physical abuse at one time in their lives.
One-third of women who are physically abused by a husband or boyfriend grew up in a household where this happened to their mother. About one in five were abused themselves as a child or teenager.

Answer 5

Yes they can because the state can pursue it if they see that the situation is bad enough and they can place a no contact order against the two people even if they don't want one.

Answer 6

in illinois the states attorneys office can prosecute without a complaining victim.

Answer 7

I thought they could, but when I called the police last summer about the neighbor hitting his wife, they said they couldn't do anything because she said he didn't hit her.