Table 3.

Impact of No-Drop Policies on Assaults Against Women and Arrests for Domestic Violence, 7 California Counties

Panel A: All Counties	Assaults vs Women	Car crashes	Non-intimate Homicide	DV Arrests	DV Arrests	DV Arrests
No drop policy	−0.13 [0.085]	−0.091 [0.052]	−0.038 [0.066]	0.203 [0.054]	0.131 [0.053]	0.186 [0.073]
Per capita income	−0.059 [0.014]	−0.023 [0.007]	−0.034 [0.011]	−0.022 [0.007]	−0.016 [0.007]	−0.017 [0.007]
employment to population ratio	4.552 [0.976]	5.821 [0.772]	−1.219 [0.732]	−0.629 [1.053]	−3.233 [0.973]	−3.023 [0.975]
Non-Intimate Homicide Rate	0.035 [0.003]	0.029 [0.001]	0.043 [0.005]	0.025 [0.002]	0.009 [0.003]	0.009 [0.003]
Female population in 1000s	0.002 [0.000]	0.002 [0.000]	0.002 [0.000]	0.002 [0.000]	0.001 [0.000]	0.001 [0.000]
Shelters for victims of DV	−0.046 [0.024]	0.018 [0.017]	0.001 [0.019]	−0.046 [0.030]	0.002 [0.032]	−0.005 [0.033]
White non-Hispanic	252.446 [43.500]	277.956 [24.573]	347.067 [61.641]	180.402 [39.500]	133.165 [26.658]	134.935 [26.771]
Hispanic	209.91 [28.733]	135.102 [28.146]	269.426 [34.646]	136.654 [29.285]	73.474 [25.515]	76.413 [25.600]
Assaults against women					0.003 [0.0004]	0.003 [0.0004]
Mandatory arrest for domestic violence						−0.092 [0.070]
Observations	231	231	231	231	231	231
Mean of dependent variable	128	4456	226	3333	3333	3333
Size of effect	−12%	−9%	−4%	23%	14%	20%
Panel B: Excluding LA County
No drop policy	−0.055 [0.082]	−0.059 [0.047]	0.044 [0.067]	0.195 [0.065]	0.131 [0.057]	0.153 [0.061]
Observations	198	198	198	198	198	198
Mean of dependent variable	43	2216	31	877	877	877
Size of effect	−5%	−6%	4%	22%	14%	17%
Panel C: Excluding LA and San Diego
No drop policy	0.049 [0.090]	0.04 [0.040]	−0.019 [0.073]	0.296 [0.064]	0.223 [0.059]	0.181 [0.057]
Observations	165	165	165	165	165	165
Mean of dependent variable	33	1376	24	661	661	661
Size of effect	5%	4%	−2%	34%	25%	20%
Robust standard errors (clustered on county) in brackets
All Regressions include county fixed effects and race specific linear time trends