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Shelter Worker Response
Domestic Violence in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the 2006 study commissioned by the Board of County Commissioners, reports “Seventy-eight people have died in domestic violence related deaths in Mecklenburg County since 2000, fifteen of those in 2005. This was the highest number of DV related deaths in North Carolina. Of the deaths in 2005, 11 were homicides, three were suicides and one was a homicide committed by a teenage boy trying to protect his mother.
Domestic violence (DV) is clearly on the rise in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, or at least the reporting of it is. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is overwhelmed with 911 domestic disturbance calls and investigations for DV related cases, averaging 764 such calls a week in 2005. 1 in every 4 women in our community will be a victim of domestic violence at some point in her lifetime.
Karen Parker Thompson, Director, Domestic Violence Services, United Family Services, Charlotte, NC.
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