Domestic Violence Calls for Assistance

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Definition: Number of domestic violence-related calls for assistance (e.g., in 2020, there were 160,646 domestic violence calls for assistance in California).Number of domestic violence-related calls for assistance per 1,000 adults ages 18-69 (e.g., in 2020, there were 6.1 domestic violence calls for assistance per 1,000 California adults).
Data Source: California Dept. of Justice Criminal Justice Statistics Center, Domestic Violence-Related Calls for Assistance (Jul. 2021); California Dept. of Finance, Population Estimates and Projections (May 2021).
Footnote: "Domestic violence" is defined according to California Penal Code 13700; visit the Dept. of Justice for additional information. The number of calls across cities may not sum to county totals, as county-level data include reports from sheriff's departments, college campuses, California Highway Patrol, Department of Parks and Recreation, Union Pacific Railroad, and BART. City-level data are not available as rates. The notation S refers to rates that have been suppressed because there were fewer than 20 domestic violence-related calls for assistance. N/A means that data are not available.

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