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You’ve most likely heard this before: domestic violence incidents spike during the holiday season with more people spending long days and weeks with family members.

It’s something that makes sense. It’s something that sounds true. So when media outlets report the information as fact, most people tend to believe it.

Here’s the thing, though: according to the National Resource Center for Domestic Violence, “Available research linking reports of domestic violence to the holiday season is limited and inconclusive.”

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Thousands of women die each year due to domestic violence. Unfortunately, one recent case that happened right here in Colorado is a lesson to law enforcement officers on how important it can be to act on initial instances of violence.

Earlier this month, police found the slain body of Blanca Judith Jurado Salas, a woman living in Glenwood Springs. She was killed by multiple gunshot wounds inside her home. Law enforcement officials are calling this a case of “extreme domestic [...]

In 1994, victim-advocacy groups told the state of Colorado that the current laws on domestic violence did not bring justice to victims. Colorado listened, and enacted some of the harshest domestic violence laws in the country.

The laws, which address everything from the process of arresting someone for domestic violence to mandatory sentencing, have proven to be tough on domestic violence offenders… but are they too tough?

Some criminal justice experts argue that Colorado’s laws are so harsh they end [...]