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Council seeks coordinated response after spike in domestic-violence homicides; meeting with police and DA planned
Summary
Council members asked the police chief and partner agencies to convene a coordinated education and resource campaign after a string of domestic-violence-related homicides and increasing calls; they asked for incident counts to understand scope.
Shreveport City Council members called for a coordinated response with law enforcement, the district attorney’s office and local nonprofits after council members and the police chief described a recent surge in domestic-violence incidents that have led to homicides.
A council member said the city has seen “too many domestic violence calls that we're seeing ending in…
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