content: Police report their crime stats accurately given their policies and protocols regarding arrests and if they're all adhering to the Duluth model or Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in training officers regarding domestic violence as all indicators suggests, I suspect that the actual numbers of women being abused by men are significantly lower, while the numbers suggesting men, and children, being abused by women would be profoundly higher. I imagine many men who reported their wives/girlfriends as the assailant were arrested, contributing to such high stats saying men are the abusers. Best advice I could offer to a male who finds himself in an abusive encounter with a female or to anticipate what could be an combative female is provided in the link to webmd.com. Don't try to stop her. Don't try to restrain her until she calms down. All she will need to do is tell a police officer that you hit her, bruises not required. Be like the late Jazz composer Duke Ellington, grab your coat, your hat, go and don't ever look back.