New Jersey Domestic Violence Trends Getting Worse

With all the transparency about domestic violence incidents occurring at an alarming rate, one would think these incidents would begin to decrease rather than increase. Unfortunately, that is not the case. According to the latest report from the New Jersey State Police, domestic violence offenses are up 3 percent from the previous report.  That’s not the only startling statistic. Domestic violence-related homicides have increased by 6 percent from the previous year which had an increase of 16 percent. Of the 52 domestic violence-related homicides, 16 victims were men. The generalization that women are only victims has squarely gone out the window. It keeps getting worse. The number of sexual assaults in domestic violence incidents has increased from 204 to 223. In Atlantic County, reports about domestic violence incidents are scarier than what we have already mentioned so far. The rate of incidents was more than double the state as a whole. There were 17 domestic…

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