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The numbers are staggering. According to a new statewide report, Ohio lost 157 lives to domestic violence in the last year alone. That’s a 37% increase from the year before, the highest number of intimate partner homicides our state has seen in over a decade. Most of these deaths involved firearms. And most were preventable. At SafePlace, we don’t need a report to tell us what’s happening. We see the warning signs every day, women quietly leaving abusive homes, mothers sleepi

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