Domestic Violence: Albuquerque
Isaiah Torres 11/26/22 Public Policy Seminar Policy Blog Introduction When I was an undergraduate at New Mexico State University, my communications professor assign ed my group t o help create an advertising campaign for La Casa Inc . , a nonprofit organization that focuses on domestic violence prevention and support . H aving the experience of working with an organization serving domestic violence victims made m e understand the severity of domestic violence in New Mexico. Many laws and organizations respond to domestic violence after the fact. Although this is beneficial, this certainly still presents its own set of challen ges . The challenge for policy initiatives tailored around domestic violence is figuring out how to prevent DV incidents from happening in the first place. Status of domestic violence in Albuquerque In 2020, Albuquerque had 8,532 domestic violence incidents , which is equivalent to almost 14 incid ents per 1000