Articles Posted in Fort Lauderdale domestic violence defense

City police in Hollywood are taking aim at those previously arrested for domestic violence, vowing beefed up penalties and scrutiny – up to and including unannounced, uninvited police checks on individual residences.  The Miami Herald reports the letter, an effort initiated by the city police department’s Domestic Violence Unit, is a way of…

It’s estimated that more than 2,000 people die every year in domestic violence incidents in the U.S. Of those who die, more than 70 percent are women and in more than half of all cases, it’s a firearm that is used to carry out the crime. Although the issue of…