“Unfortunately, domestic violence remains the most common type of crime for King County prosecutors,” McNerthney said, citing that those cases account for nearly 21% of the 629 charges filed in October.
“A very successful week in the domestic violence unit in Seattle. We had three cases culminate in findings of guilt by juries,” said Senior Deputy Prosecutor David Martin, who heads up the Domestic Violence Unit at the Prosecutor’s Office.
“This was three separate cases, and the verdicts came back within a day of each other,” Martin said. “I think its a testament to the work of the teams that are operating in the Seattle Domestic Violence Unit, the deputies who were there, the advocates and the paralegals, and also that the court system is back and working at a high capacity across the board.”“There’s still a lot of domestic violence going on in the community,” he said.
“The first hope begins with the way we’re measuring this now,” said Martin. “In the past, there was really just a focus on homicide and that those are the most important cases that we see. And there’s an enormous commitment to doing the best job possible on those types of cases. But what’s also true is that domestic violence has an impact on marriage, in many areas of the community. Measuring each one of those areas is really important and we’re especially committed to that.
“We received a grant from the Center for Disease Control to study the intersection of domestic violence and suicide in King County, and we’re sharing our data with Public Health,” Martin said. “This will be a multi-year process to connect data to really understand the intersection of domestic violence and suicide.”
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