This article examines an innovative domestic violence intervention: some 300 “second-response” police patrols set up since 2015 by military police forces and municipal guards in cities around Brazil. They enforce court-issued protection orders by paying repeat visits to women at high risk, referring them to support services, and ensuring abusers stay away. Drawing on interviews with officers who founded or now lead these patrols, and on local-level police data and studies, the article analyzes their origins and modus operandi and evaluates their impacts on victims, abusers, the community, and internal police force culture. Available evidence shows that victims enrolled in these programs are much less likely to suffer repeated assault or feminicide than those who are not. The article examines how this intervention fits with the other elements of local protection networks and compares these patrols with second-response police interventions developed elsewhere.

本文考察了一项创新的家庭暴力干预措施：自 2015 年以来，巴西各地城市的宪兵和市政警卫组织了大约 300 个“第二反应”警察巡逻队。他们通过反复探视高危妇女，将她们转介到支持服务，并确保施虐者远离，来执行法院签发的保护令。本文通过对创建或现在领导这些巡逻队的官员的采访，以及地方一级的警察数据和研究，分析了他们的起源和作案手法，并评估了他们对受害者、施虐者、社区和内部警察文化的影响。现有证据表明，参加这些计划的受害者比没有参加这些计划的受害者遭受反复攻击或杀害女性的可能性要小得多。