Inside "The Aftermath:" Big violence issues in a small county
Emily Cureton’s reporting was undertaken as a California Health Journalism Fellow at the University of Southern California's Center for Health Journalism.
Other stories in the series include:
An epidemic: A series on domestic violence in Calif.'s Del Norte County (Part 1)
An American dream: Domestic violence in Calif.'s Del Norte County (Part 2)
Native communities hit hard by domestic violence in Calif.'s Del Norte County (Part 3)
CREDIT BRYANT ANDERSON/DEL NORTE TRIPLICATE
By Geoffrey Riley and Emily Cureton
One of California's smallest counties is beset with one of the state's biggest problems: domestic violence.
The Del Norte County Sheriff's office received domestic violence calls in the dozens until six years ago.
That's when the number mushroomed into the hundreds, and now tops 1,000 per year, more per capita than in any other county in all of California. The reasons and remedies are elusive.
Emily Cureton, now the Exchange producer, spent a year delving into the domestic violence situation in Del Norte County.
We hear her three-part series summing up her findings and visit on aftereffects from her reporting.
[This story was originally published by Jefferson Public Radio.]
Photo by Bryant Anderson/Del Norte Triplicate.