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Police Consider Domestic Violence Calls Hazardous Duty

By Steven Rodriguez

Answering domestic violence calls are among the most hazardous of their duties, say Los Angeles police officers. The volatile emotions unleashed when families are at war with each other escalate the risk of serious — and sometimes deadly — violence. For sheer personal risk, many officers equate answering a domestic violence call to intervening at an armed robbery. In California last year, police officers answered 174,264 domestic violence calls and made 43,911 domestic violence arrests. Under California law, explains Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Stephen Rodriguez, domestic violence is defined as abusive behavior towards a past or present intimate partner, including spouses, ex-spouses, people who are dating, and people who have a child together, whether or not they are married or living together...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on January 07, 2009 (boomark / email).