What we can measure—more or less—is domestic homicide. This data tells us that 16 percent of America’s homicides are due to intimate partner violence,2 and that four men kill their current or former partner every day.3 Police data, too, shows that domestic abuse is one of America’s most serious law-and-order problems: every forty seconds, police are called out to a domestic incident. In fact, domestic abuse is the number-one reason people call police for help.4 Now, as you digest those statistics, consider that only 25 percent of domestic assaults are reported to police.5 Imagine if they were
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