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Table 2 ARRESTS FOR ABUSE OF FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD MEMBER - HRS 709-906 Location 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 City and County 2,750 2,735 3,007 2,569 2,365 2,333 2,276 1,848 of Honolulu_ County of Maui 640 �!�� 614 644 624 -- 610 654 704 F 56-1 �I_ County of Hawaii 565 166 485 124 544 135 564 217 600 666 691 626 184 177 274 321 3,759 3,830 3,945 3,356 County of Kauai Total 4,121 3,958 4,330 3,974 Source: County Police Departments( 1995); tiCJUC (1990.2002) The four county police departments have mandatory arrest policies for the Abuse of Household Member statute, which is a misdemeanor offense. The standard for the mandatory arrest for abuse of household members is "visible injury or complaint of pain". Table 2 shows arrests under the AFHM statute decreased by 15% statewide from 2001 to 2002, after a two-year climb in arrest from 1999. Only the County of Kauai had an increase in arrests during this period (17%). Honolulu County showed a decrease of almost 19% between 2001 and 2002 arrests. Similar to Table 1 on reports above, the number of arrests represents the lowest over the eight-year period charted in Table 2. Table 3 PERCENTAGE OF ARREST FOR REPORTED INCIDENTS OF AFHM I Location 1995 1996 1997 1998 1 1999 2000 2001 2002 City and County 58.9 1 45.8 61.7 62.5 73.7 65.1 64.9 61.6 of Honolulu County of Maui __ZL3_j 20.4 19.8 18.2 17.7 15.9 14.7 14.0 County of Hawaii 57.4 43.5 49.9 51.0 58.7 53.0 57.8 63.4 County of Kauai __ILLj 47.5 55.1 67.6 56.3 36.6 52.7 51.8 A comparison of the percentage of arrests to the number of reported incidents (Table 3 above) shows a wide variance over the different years. If only the physical reports for Abuse of Household Members in Maui County were included, Maui's percentage of arrests for reported incidents would be 53.1%, a figure that would be within the range of the other county arrest rates. The arrest rate for domestic abuse appear proportional to the population distribution, with the exception of a lower proportion of reports in the City and County of Honolulu (36.2%), as illustrated in the distribution of reports and arrests in figure 2 below. The proportion of reports for Maui County includes all verbal abuse incidents as mentioned above, but would total 14% if limited to physical abuse incidents only.