Politics & Government

Yorktown Tops List of Domestic Violence Incidents Reported in Patch Communities

The Yorktown Police Department received 393 reports of domestic violence in 2010. Non-profit organization Hope's Door supports Violence Against Women Act.

Three-hundred-ninety-three.

That's how many calls reporting incidents of domestic violence in Yorktown, the police department received in 2010.

According to figures from the Westchester County Office for Women, there were several other municipalities that received upward of 100 domestic violence reports that year—including 115 in Sleepy Hollow, 149 in Mount Pleasant and 181 in the Village of Ossining.

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Yorktown recorded 393 domestic violence incidents in the area for 2010.  

Hope's Door, a Pleasantville-based non-profit organization, is applauding the re-authorization of the federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), according to a press release.

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"VAWA, which was first passed in 1994, expired October 2011 for the first time in 17 years," according to the release.

CarlLa Horton, executive director of Hope's Door said in the statement, "The House of Representatives must stand up for the safety of women and children and expand efforts to stop domestic violence and the intergenerational cycle of abuse."

The act was passed by the Senate this week, where Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D — NY) was among the 78-22 majority who voted in favor of the act.

"There is simply no room for partisan gamesmanship when we're talking about the safety of our families," she stated.

Hope's Door reported it has "served 765 victims of abuse in 2012.

"Of the women served, 45% had been strangled by their abusive partners and 43% reported that their partners had threatened to kill them," the statement said. "There were 944 children in the families Hope’s Door served last year."

Additional 2010 statistics from the Westchester County Office for Women (12,971 domestic violence incidents total reported to local departments):

  • 118 in Bedford
  • 16 in Briarcliff Manor
  • 24 in Bronxville
  • 49 in Croton-on-Hudson
  • 143 in Dobbs Ferry
  • 120 in Eastchester
  • 271 in Harrison
  • 98 in Hastings-on-Hudson
  • 149 in Mount Kisco
  • 149 in Mount Pleasant
  • 90 in New Castle
  • 181 in the Village of Ossining
  • 62 in Pelham
  • 33 in Pelham Manor
  • 67 in Pound Ridge
  • 44 in Scarsdale
  • 115 in Sleepy Hollow
  • 94 in Tarrytown
  • 393 in Yorktown

Editor's Note: The headline has been adjusted since its original publication. The information about domestic violence reports did not compare all Westchester municipalities, as the original headline stated. Patch regrets the error.


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