“Such assaults happen daily with domestic violence but I have yet to speak with a prosecutor who sees these crimes treated as seriously” when they occur in that setting. She wants to see prosecutors handle domestic violence with the same rigor they accord to stranger violence. For most of our history, domestic violence has been considered a private matter. (One outcome of the #MeToo movement may be a greater willingness to report domestic violence: In 2018, calls to the national domestic violence hotline reportedly went up 30 percent.) (As Snyder points out, the reluctance to intervene in cases of domestic violence isn’t helped by the high incidence of such violence within the law enforcement community itself.)

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