With no oversight, police can ignore domestic violence laws

“Wisconsin’s laws on how police must respond to domestic violence are among the most comprehensive in the country, but no one has the authority to enforce them, a Journal Sentinel investigation has found. And if the laws are ignored, there are no penalties.”

The Journal Sentinel’s investigation notes that law enforcement agencies have to have policies stipulating how they will respond to these cases, but that there isn’t any oversight to check whether departments have made them.