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Domestic Violence Gun Restriction - Milwaukee Mayor Signs Resolution MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson signed a non-binding resolution Wednesday that hopes to reduce the number of domestic violence-related shootings.  An abuser's access to guns can mean the...

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2023/10/16/wisconsin-domestic-violence-deaths-rise-funding-for-victims-drops/71158035007 2022 Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report

Click Here to connect! At the Institute, we are dedicated to educating professionals as well as those who have experienced strangulation assaults. Survivors of strangulation assaults experience the ultimate robbery of hope. We know just one strangulation occurrence at...

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Six Milwaukee County women were killed in a two-week period and all were victims of domestic violence   Ashley Luthern Milwaukee Journal Sentinel In two weeks, six women lost their lives to domestic violence in Milwaukee County. They were mothers, daughters,...

How Wisconsin’s ‘honor’ system for removing guns from domestic abusers failed Jesi Ewers CLARE AMARI Wisconsin Watch Jessica Ewers, a Racine native, was killed three days after Christmas 2020 by her former partner as she was in the process of leaving him. CLARE AMARI...

WI Supreme Court Decision on Expansion of Concealed Carry Permits Will Impact Victims of Domestic Violence As reported by the Associated Press, a disorderly conduct conviction can’t disqualify someone from obtaining a permit to carry a concealed weapon in Wisconsin,...

The Domestic Violence Homicide Survivor Support Group meets the second Thursday of each month from 7-8:30pm.  Please join us for this free and confidential opportunity to share in community with others in Wisconsin who have lost a loved one to domestic violence...

Darrell Brooks fled domestic dispute before Waukesha parade horror and was on bail for ‘running over mom of his baby'

Which domestic abusers will go on to commit murder? This one act offers a clue. Meredith Cooper, of San Antonio, Texas, and her 8-year-old daughter, Heather, visit a memorial of 26 metal crosses near First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Monday Nov. 6,...

A mishandled 911 call, a delayed Amber Alert and a grisly crime: What went wrong in the case of a murdered Milwaukee mom and her daughters Ashley Luthern Milwaukee Journal Sentinel A woman inside a Milwaukee apartment woke up to a loud thump against her wall and her...

To read the full article, please click here.   Halfway through 2020, Milwaukee homicide rate is highest it's been since the early 1990s Halfway through 2020, on top of a deadly pandemic and rising tensions between police and the public, Milwaukee has been...

Gun Violence Memorial Project The Gun Violence Memorial Project is an exhibition memorializing the memories of the 700 hundred Americans who lose their lives to gun violence every week, including those who are murdered by intimate partners. The exhibition comprises...

The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV), in conjunction with Ms. Magazine, started this project in 1994 to create a national registry of names to increase public awareness of domestic violence deaths. Since then, NCADV has continued to collect...

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https://www.vox.com/2019/2/16/18227655/aurora-shooter-gun-domestic-violence

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-women-domestic-violence-delashon-jefferson_us_5c128145e4b0449012f7a511

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/investigations/domestic-violence-murders/?utm_term=.80be18587f6a

https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/courts/man-who-killed-wife-blew-up-their-house-will-never/article_beb23aba-4c59-55a2-8f38-22c451ebb81a.html

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/07/27/convicted-murderer-who-killed-girlfriend-sentenced-life-prison/847075002/

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National Coalition Against Domestic Violence Mourns with Santa Fe, Texas Community Denver, CO / Washington, D.C. -- The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence mourns with Santa Fe high school and their communities in the wake of another school shooting. A mother...

Florida shooter Nikolas Cruz shared a trait with other mass killers: He abused women.

Husband arrested in 30 year old cold case from Columbia County