{"id":414538,"date":"2025-11-30T06:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/414538\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T06:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:50:14","slug":"experts-see-rise-in-domestic-violence-cases-during-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/414538\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts see rise in domestic violence cases during the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Late Thanksgiving night, San Antonio police say a man was stabbed by his brother on Vera Cruz near South Trinity Street.<\/p>\n<p>The injured man was taken to the hospital in stable condition, but Erica Haller-Stevenson with Metro Health says we see domestic violence cases like this increase by about 20% from Thanksgiving to New Year\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s financial stress, there is emotional stress going on,\u201d said Haller-Stevenson.<\/p>\n<p>And she says it can all be made worse by family members with rough histories all together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat really comes into play often is the use of alcohol,\u201d said Haller-Stevenson.<\/p>\n<p>Annually, we see around 58,000 calls for domestic violence between the San Antonio Police Department and Bexar County Sheriff\u2019s Office. And according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/ccdv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CCDV-Statistical-Report-2024-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2024 study<\/a>, we have been seeing around the same amount of reports over the years \u2014 but this year the county saw a significant increase. Haller says the increase may be in part from callers becoming more comfortable with reporting domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBexar County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Bexar County Health have been working hard at building their support for domestic violence in the past few years,\u201d said Haller-Steven.<\/p>\n<p>Experts suggest avoiding topics like politics and religion during family gatherings or any long-standing family differences.<\/p>\n<p>Haller says another way to prevent domestic violence is if you see tension rising between family members separate them.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best resources someone in need can reach out to is 211, a United Way help line. But if the situation gets out of hand, you should call 911. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Late Thanksgiving night, San Antonio police say a man was stabbed by his brother on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":414539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-414538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115637323253060687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}