Responding to calls of domestic violence are among the most dangerous situations police can be asked to investigate, according to Brooks David, spokesperson for Louisiana State Police Troop I.
Study author Dr. Stacy Drury says she looked at children who came from homes affected by domestic violence, suicide or the incarceration of a family member.
Current law says woman or man has to wait 180 days for a divorce to be granted when one spouse physically or sexually abuses the other or their children.
When former Lafayette police chief Ralph Peters joined law enforcement in the early 1970s, he said more than 30 percent of the workload involved domestic abuse. Back then, all officers did was "restore the peace and try to convince the guy to leave," Peters recalled.
THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — A rally and candlelight vigil against domestic violence are planned Tuesday starting at 6 p.m. at Nicholls State University.
Sponsored by the Nicholls Women's Resource and Services Office, activities will begin on the front steps of the Bollinger Memorial Student Union...
Richwood police arrested a local woman and her 19-year-old daughter on domestic violence charges, after the
two got into a fierce fight over some baby clothes.