The Minneapolis study tested the efficiency of steps taken by the police to minimize domestic violence. 25 real scenarios were used. The cases on which this study is based dealt mainly with assault complaints led by bad behavior. These kinds of calls are the most common complaints related to domestic violence. The victim as well as the person who hurt the victim was required to be present at the scene of crime when the police reached in order to be considered for this research. 51 patrolling police officers of the police department of Minneapolis took part in this experiment. These participants were requested to implement any one of the three methods of dealing with domestic violence complaints. Only those cases were considered in which, the police felt from the phone calls that an actual assault had taken place. The three options of dealing with such cases were:
- Sending the offender to some place far from victim for at least eight hours
- Advising both the victim and the offender and settling their quarrels or fights
- Arresting the offender
The time period for studying each case was till six months after the incident, during which the victims as well as the abusers were interviewed. The police files were referred to regularly to note whether repetition of similar incidents had taken place during that period or not. The entire experiment was conducted for 17 months and dealt with 330 cases of domestic violence. The results of this experiment suggested that arresting the abuser was the most efficient and functional police reaction. As per the outcome of this study, arresting the offenders minimized the chances of re-occurrence of the same incident in the following six months, by half. The other police reaction options, like separating the victim and abuser for eight hours and trying to settle the issues, were found to be less functional and their impacts were much lesser as compared to arresting (Siegel, 2003).
明尼阿波利斯的研究测试了警方采取的步骤以减少家庭暴力的效率。使用25个真实的场景。该例本研究主要涉及侵犯投诉由不良行为。这些电话是有关家庭暴力的最常见的投诉。被害人以及被害人的人须在犯罪现场的警察达到以被视为本研究。51巡逻警察的明尼阿波利斯警察部门参加了这个实验。这些参与者被要求实施家庭暴力的投诉处理的三种方法的任何一个。只有那些案件被认为是，警方认为，从电话，一个实际的攻击已经发生了。处理这类案件的三个选项是：
•送罪犯远离受害者的地方至少八个小时
•建议被害人和加害人和解决他们的争吵或打架
•逮捕罪犯
研究每一种情况下，时间到后六个月的事件中，受害者以及滥用者进行采访。警方文件进行定期注意是否类似事件的重复了这期间或不到位。整个实验进行了17个月，对330例家庭暴力。本实验表明，逮捕滥用者是最有效的和功能的警察的反应结果。根据研究结果，逮捕罪犯的最小化，在经过六个月的同一事件再次发生的可能性，一半。其他警察反应选项，如分离的受害者和滥用八小时，试图解决的问题，被认为是较少的功能和它们的影响是较小的相比，逮捕（西格尔，2003）。
