New crime data for New York City paints a dim picture of how we’re getting along — in our own homes.
There were 71 domestic violence homicide deaths in New York in 2022, up nearly 15% from the year before, according to a recently released report from the Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence. That includes an almost 30% jump in domestic violence homicides involving intimate partners, such as married couples, divorced people, and people who are dating.
“All Things Considered” host Sean Carlson discussed the findings — and the lives behind the numbers — on WNYC with Saloni Sethi, the office’s acting commissioner.
A transcript of their conversation follows. It has been lightly edited for clarity.
Carlson: Commissioner, all told, there were 854 domestic violence homicides in the city between the years 2010 and 2022, according to the report. What’s driving those numbers, and is there any sense the picture improved in 2023?
Sethi: Our office really thinks about domestic violence as nothing short of a public health crisis. And unfortunately, when we’re looking at the data for 2023, we haven’t really seen any improvement from 2022. We’ve seen a slight uptick. I think right now we’re at about 73 homicides related to domestic violence in 2023.
In terms of domestic violence, I think it’s really important that we sort of acknowledge what we’re talking about. When we’re talking about intimate partner violence, we mean violence that occurs between people who are in any kind of intimate relationship, a dating relationship, living together, any kind of romantic relationship. (There were 31 fatalities in this subset category in 2022, up from 24 the year before.) And other family violence that really includes everything else — violence between siblings, aunts and uncles, child on parent, parent on child. (There were 40 such homicides in 2022, up from 38 in 2021.)
The report says there are persistent racial and gender disparities that show up in the data….
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