Essay On Mandatory Arrest

An improved law in the case of domestic violence is the mandatory arrest law, before the law was changed when there was a call for domestic violence law enforcement would travel to the location of the disturbance and try to mediate and separate the couple. “As a result, there have been several incidents where spouses would get seriously injured or killed by their abusers, in response victim advocates have lobbied and now mandatory arrest laws have been implemented.” (Find Law). Since the law has been reformed to mandatory arrest, police departments across the country have data stating that mandatory arrest is more effective than the previous procedure as mediation and separating the pair. The mandatory arrest law works well for law enforcement because the officers are taking action to eliminate the threat of the aggressor from the victim, by doing so the aggressor and the victim can be separated and cool down, also by removing the aggressor from the location the victim may not be intimidated and would be willing to file charges against the abuser. From the prosecutor’s standpoint, before the law was reformed it would be difficult for the attorneys to prosecute the aggressor in the incident if the victim was intimated by their partner. Also, in some situations the victim is in love with their partner and do not want to press charges even though their partner wounded them, since mandatory arrest laws have been implemented the state can now press charges even if the victim does not want to. In my opinion since the law has been reformed and police can now take the assailant into custody, this process makes it easier for charges to be pressed and can possibly saves the victim’s life. A law that is difficult for law enforcement to enforce and prosecutors to try is cyber bullying. Bullying has always been in a problem in our community, kids and teenagers have teased each other in and out of schools for decades, and the difference now is that people use the internet as a resource to assist in their bullying techniques. Cyber bullying is when individuals post inconsiderate things about a person, such as an unflattering picture, posting rumors on chat rooms, sharing hurtful comments online. The difference between regular bullying and online bullying is that the information shared about the person will remain online permanently. (Criminal Law). A person who is a victim of cyber bullying can be detrimental, there have been countless news coverage …show more content…
It is difficult for a school district and law enforcement to find the direct source of cyber bullying, when an image or comment is posted online, many people can save the information to their personal device or share and repost it on social media. Therefore, school officials and law enforcement have to find a needle in a haystack. Another difficulty for law enforcement to combat is that there are no laws that are specifically for cyber bullying. There are current laws that are can align with cyber bullying as; harassment by a computer, death threats and bodily injury, and stalking. Therefore, if a person would like to press charges against the bully, law enforcement and the prosecutor would not be able to charge the individual on cyber bullying, the person would have to be charged with harassment, stalking, and death