A record 88,619 domestic violence complaints were received by police in 2023, including about 30 percent in which men said they were the victims, National Police Agency statistics showed on March 28. The overall figure was up by 4.9 percent from 2022 and marked the 20th straight year of incr...
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The Supreme Court ruled Friday on U.S. v. Rahimi, a case involving a man who posed a credible threat to the physical safety of another. The court upheld a federal law that prohibits people who are subject to domestic violence restraining orders from owning firearms, citing it was consistent...
2025 Some are ‘making people multi-millionaires’ Police ID woman killed in domestic violence incident at CT home; second woman hospitalized Some CT restaurants struggle, others are booming. Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 28 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for domestic violence ...
In fact, statistics reveal that the number one killer of black women ages 15 to 34 is intimate partner homicide. The decision to report an incident of gender violence to the police is difficult for any victim. But for black female victims, there may be another factor contributing to a ...
“That drop has been of concern to police in addition to myself. At Victims ACT we have seen that overall, the proportion of new matters coming to us that relate to family violence has increased in the last two months.” While there is already a large amount of underrep...
Scope of Domestic Violence The extent of the problem of domestic violence is illustrated by the following statistics: Women in the U.S. are more likely to have been injured, raped, or murdered by a male partner than by all other types of attackers. In 2010, 7 million women and 5.7 milli...
Nationally, victims report less than half of intimate partner violence cases to the police. The same holds true in Los Angeles, where limited resources exacerbate the challenges for victims seeking refuge. In one recent year, only 17% of emergency shelter beds were available to women, though the...
This is especially true for the spouses of law enforcement.Multiple studieshave found that 24-40% of police officer families experience domestic violence (in contrast to 10% of families in the general population). Not only are the abusers' friends and colleagues the very people victims would tur...
Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate what proportion of domestic violence (DV) victims who seek help from DV services choose not to report the violence to police and to investigate factors and reasons associated with non-reporting. Method: Data was collected by interviewing 300 victims...