The orders of protection they do here are all civil. Unlike High Risk Teams, or larger community coordinated responses, they focus on the very short term—just days, usually—in the hopes of getting a victim to a place where he or she can make clear-headed decisions for the longer term. Primarily, police are the ones calling from on-site situations of domestic violence in one of the city’s eight wards. Advocates then formulate an immediate plan for victims and will most often call them back and discuss this plan in the minutes after a perpetrator has been arrested. This means that the response
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