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Ending domestic violence needs to be a policy priority. Now.

Last year in Georgia, 121 people were killed during domestic violence incidents. And policymakers are busy pushing policies that make people less safe, instead of addressing the prevalence of violence that already exists in too many of our communities. Domestic violence, often called family violence in Georgia, is a type of violence — often a mix of physical, emotional, financial or sexual violence — used to exert power and control over a partner or family member.

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Intimate partner violence is no “domestic dispute”

“The slaying resulted from a domestic dispute,” reads the final sentence in a short news item in Northwest Georgia News about a South Carolina man who killed his wife Vanessa Ruth Hilton, and then fled to Georgia. A “domestic dispute,” sounds like another tired disagreement about dishes or errands or walking the dog. A disagreement between partners, a disagreement among equals. A “domestic dispute” obscures the reality of the type of violence this is: intimate