Burlington police add new job to fight domestic violence

Written by SAFE on January 18, 2016. Posted in News Articles

By WCAX.com on 01/05/2016

“… “I think that sometimes if officers don’t understand the nature of domestic violence it can become frustrating to keep returning to the same house over and over again and get into that mindset of, ‘Jeez, why doesn’t she just leave?’ Which is what we hear all the time. And it’s not really that simple,” said Kelly Dougherty from Women Helping Battered Women. …”