Prior to the team’s formation in 2005, the town of Amesbury alone had on average one domestic violence homicide per year. Since they began, Dubus and Dunne have not had a single homicide in their caseload. What is of equal importance to Dunne, though, is that they have had to put fewer than 10% of the survivors in shelter; before 2005 that number would have been above 90%.
