Get ready for a festive evening to support the critical work of DVCC. Join us at the Shorehaven Golf Club for cocktails on the terrace followed by dinner and dancing with live entertainment from local favorite cover band, “Fake ID.” Attire is festive not formal – no black tie necessary but bring your dancing shoes! The beautiful setting with views of the golf course and Long Island Sound will set the tone for the evening’s theme, “Dancing in the Moonlight.”
Although our town has a very low crime rate, crimes such as domestic violence have remained constant over many years. Domestic violence is New Canaan’s violent crime. If you live in New Canaan, and you are the victim of violence, it is highly probable that the perpetrator is someone that you love. Domestic violence is both a national and an intimately local problem that knows no boundaries. Most cases of domestic violence are never reported to the police.
[Editor’s Note: The following column is written by Leon Krolikowski, Chief of Police.]
Domestic violence is both national and intimately local problem that knows no boundaries. Most cases of domestic violence are never reported to the police. According to former Attorney General Janet Reno, “Too many American women live in fear of the very people upon whom they depend for love and affection. Instead of providing refuge, the walls of many homes serve as prison bars.” Consequently, to make everyone aware of this national problem, October is designated as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Although our Town has a very low crime rate, crimes such as domestic violence have remained constant over many years.
Dede Bartlett-New Canaan Marks Domestic Violence Awareness Month
For a sweeping view of domestic violence’s prevalence here, our town may not need the 1,000 purple pinwheels now stuck into the knoll outside Vine Cottage, each representing a resident who called New Canaan Police in the past decade because of violence in their homes, according to one local expert. To know just what domestic violence looks like, New Canaan also doesn’t need to recognize October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Dede Bartlett, co-chair of the New Canaan Domestic Violence Partnership, said Wednesday morning. “I think Ray Rice has done that for us,” Bartlett told dozens of New Canaan High School students who gathered in the main lobby with teachers, faculty, administrators, SROs and town officials for a proclamation reading. “How many of you saw the video clip of the Baltimore Ravens football player punch his girlfriend, knock her out and drag her by the hair out of the elevator?” Bartlett said, prompting everyone to raise a hand. “Yes, you, me and about 50 million other Americans saw that tape, and maybe for a whole lot of folks, it was the first time that they saw what domestic violence looked like.
