Law Enforcement

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        Law enforcement has the responsibility to respond to information of domestic quarrels. Domestic disruption cases needs a significant share of police officers means of help (CITE). It is not a surprise that domestic violence or domestic disturbance cases are the most notable police responses. Domestic-violence connected requests to law enforcement account for in the middle of 15 percent and more than 50 percent of all calls (CITE). In my home state of North Carolina, in Charlotte, police answer to approximately 30,000 domestic trouble calls respectively every year and about 60 percent of the instances result in calls for help by another fellow officer (CITE). It is known that each area would be different than others, but it is well-documented that domestic violence takes a lump-sum of the calls into the police.

Police officers are more and more being obligatory by law and guiding principle to make an arrest in instances of domestic violence, which is perceived as the correct approach based on the legal expectation. In other instances, law enforcement may be essential to take on the issue and try to reduce the problem between both individuals and recommending the suspect on how to handle the problem or tell him that an arrest could take place if something positive does not happen after the officer tries to reduce the issue. (CITE). The biggest argument of mandatory arrest policy versus a pro-arrest policy is which one is the most affective. A person can argue that an arrest will reduce the chance of the person becoming a repeat offender, but I do not agree with it. The other argument is to have officers try to mediate the problem on site. I feel like this is wrong as well, because these officers are not professionals in the field of handling something like this in my opinion. When considering either mandatory arrest policy versus a pro-arrest policy, they both have their pros and cons.

The Lautenberg Amendment to the Gun Control Act of 1968, started on September 30th 1996. The amendment makes it a felony for individuals sentenced of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence to ship, transport, possess, or receive firearms or ammunition. The Amendment also makes it a felony to transferal a firearm or ammunition to a person known, or rationally alleged, to have a sentence. This also goes towards law enforcement and the military as well, which means they technically could not even do their job. This is a good law and I have seen people who fall victim to this amendment. The effect is good in my opinion. It is seen as a little extreme due to minor incidents of domestic violence could cause a person their job, but gun control in general is always good in my opinion.