Marie Sadanaga

“If officers determined that there was domestic violence, even if a victim is reluctant, our policy is they still make that arrest, if a suspect is there, or take the report.”

“officers would commonly use the phrase "verbal dispute" to document when a report was not taken.”

“domestic violence incident reports are reports where there are no crime, and that is why we have them, so we can document and have a history of calls”

“We take an incident report when we determine there is no crime, but that one of the parties is in fear that either their life was in danger or they could be a victim of some type of serious bodily injury.”

“if they really don't want to tell us, we can't force them”

“you do have the visible injury and, you know, evidence of some type of struggle, so they would need to try to get that probable cause to determine that there was a crime that created that injury”

“To do an investigation to determine if that injury was a result of a crime.”

“The officers still need to do an investigation if there's a visible injury. Because we have to determine if there was a crime.”

“So for us, as officers, we document those so if in the future there is a crime, we can go back and say there have been all these other incidents.”