{"id":20285,"date":"2019-03-29T08:48:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T12:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=20285"},"modified":"2019-03-29T08:48:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T12:48:52","slug":"opp-what-is-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/29\/opp-what-is-domestic-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"OPP &#8211; What is Domestic Violence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know someone who is being abused? Do you know the signs of abuse? \u00a0\u00a0Domestic abuse and violence continue to be serious and prevalent problems in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in the North East Region respond to approximately 3,700 domestic related calls every day.\u00a0In 2018, officers responded to over 2,400 non-criminal incidents and more than 1,200 domestic violence calls that were criminal related.\u00a0Three domestic related incidents were homicides, where 5 people lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the rate of domestic homicide has rose by 150% from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The OPP recognizes it takes a co-ordinated and comprehensive effort by police and community partners to effectively combat and prevent domestic violence and victimization.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abuse can consist of physical, verbal, emotional, sexual, and\/or financial. Abuse can include assault and other types of mistreatment and cruelty, such as threatening and stalking. All types of abuse have one thing in common: they create fear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If your partner does any of the following things, you could be a victim of abuse. This list shows only some abusive behaviours; but, does not include everything.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your partner might:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>control your ability to access money or other family finances;<\/li>\n<li>isolate you from contacting your family or friends, and preventing you from establishing new friendships;<\/li>\n<li>threaten to hurt you, your children or other family members;<\/li>\n<li>threaten to hurt your pet or damage other special items you treasure;<\/li>\n<li>threaten to have you deported from Canada;<\/li>\n<li>withhold your identification or other important documents;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0threaten to take your children away from you;<\/li>\n<li>threaten to call the Children&#8217;s Aid Society and report you as a child abuser;<\/li>\n<li>prevent you from obtaining social assistance;<\/li>\n<li>force you to do things you do not want to do sexually;<\/li>\n<li>threaten suicide;<\/li>\n<li>manipulate you into doing things you don&#8217;t want to do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So what can you do if you are someone you know is being abused?\u00a0There are countless resources available to you, which include hospitals, shelters, Fem&#8217;aide, Children&#8217;s Aid Society, Victim Services, mental health services, social services.\u00a0Please contact your local family resource centre, shelter or Victim Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know someone who is being abused? Do you know the signs of abuse? \u00a0\u00a0Domestic abuse and violence continue to be serious and prevalent problems in Ontario. &nbsp; The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in the North East Region respond to approximately 3,700 domestic related calls every day.\u00a0In 2018, officers responded to over 2,400 non-criminal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 01:27:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20286,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20285\/revisions\/20286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}