The Nation - News from Jan. 27, 1986
The number of police departments inclined to make arrests in cases of minor domestic violence has tripled in just one year, according to a 1985 survey of more than 140 cities conducted by the Washington-based Crime Control Institute. It found that the police in 44 cities of more than 100,000 population had policies encouraging arrests in minor domestic assaults, up from 14 of those cities in 1984.
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