- Almost one-half of all murders in Colorado are committed by an intimate or former intimate partner, and the victims are disproportionately female.
(Project Safeguard, Fatality Review Project, Denver, Colorado 2007)
- In 2008, 33 people died during 24 fatal incidents of domestic violence. This included 7 children. (Denver Metro Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee 2009)
- In 2008, Colorado agencies provided 98,044 nights of shelter to 5,087 individuals: 8,660 individuals were turned away from shelters in Colorado due to a lack of capacity, a 36% increase from 2007. (State of Colorado Department of Human Services, Domestic Abuse Assistance Program, Denver, Colorado 2008.)
- Colorado domestic violence agencies answered 46,780 emergency crisis intervention phone calls in 2008. An increase of 20% over 2007. (State of Colorado Department of Human Services, Domestic Abuse Assistance Program, Denver, Colorado 2008.)
