When a Police Officer Responds to a Call for Help

question 33

Multiple Choice

When a police officer responds to a call for help in a case of spousal abuse,what should the officer do? A randomized controlled experiment in Charlotte,North Carolina,studied three police responses to spousal abuse: advise and possibly separate the couple,issue a citation to the offender,and arrest the offender.The effectiveness of the three responses was determined by re-arrest rates.The table below shows these rates. What proportion of times were there no subsequent arrests out of all cases in which the assigned treatment was "Advise/separate"?

• A)0.29
• B)0.33
• C)0.84
• D)0.88

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