Posted by Jeremy Gray — The Birmingham News June 23, 2008 8:55 AM

Categories: Breaking News

More than a dozen Birmingham police officers fanned out across the city early this morning arresting people with outstanding domestic violence warrants.

The arrests, part of an effort dubbed Operation Hit Back, was the second such sweep in less than a month, said Sgt. James Jackson, supervisor of the department’s domestic violence unit.

While Jackson said he does not yet know how many people were arrested today, he estimated more than 50 arrests had been made since the first sweep on June 9.

The idea of targeting those with domestic violence warrants came from Deputy Chief Herman Hinton, Jackson said.

Domestic violence is connected to a myriad of other crimes, Jackson said, because offenders are often addicted to drugs and sometimes commit robberies and burglaries to feed their addictions.

Birmingham News

By Nancy Anderson

Daily Planet

Tue Jun 24, 2008, 10:59 AM MDT

Telluride, Colo. -

Domestic and sexual violence permeate our society, even here in San Miguel County. Yet, it often goes unexposed because we allow the perpetrators to hide behind a false shield of propriety.

The Telluride News

By LISA MARCHESONI, Senior Writer
Posted: Sunday, June 22, 2008 10:04 am

Saturday June 21, 2008, 12:20 PM

The face of homicide has changed on Staten Island this year.

Just one of the Island’s 10 murders so far can be linked to domestic violence — a dramatic change from last year, when more than half of the borough’s murders were the result of abusive relationships or parental violence and police didn’t have to look far for a suspect.

Instead, investigators are seeing an array of motives — from robbery to romantic rivalry to escalating turf disputes.

And that’s making this year’s murders tougher to solve.

“Domestic-violence murders are almost always solved, and the stranger-to-stranger murders, or murders that are in the drug trade … are rarely solved,” says Andrew Karman, a sociology professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the author of a book exploring the reasons behind Manhattan’s steep drop in crime in the 1990s.

Last year, suspects in seven domestic-violence murders were identified by police almost immediately.

Staten Island Advance