A researcher who operationalizes (i.e., measures) the incidence of domestic violence in a community by the number of domestic violence arrests made by the police department would likely:

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Counting only domestic violence arrests made by the police department would not capture incidents that are not reported to the police, which is a major limitation of this measure. Therefore, the researcher would not have a complete measure of domestic violence in the community.

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