卡城警方每年大约会接到18000个与家庭暴力相关的电话。家庭暴力科领导Rob Davidson说，这个数字是很大的，受到最近的54岁的Selamawit Alem和25岁的Julie Tran在他们位于Coventry Hills的家中被害的提醒。Alem的30岁儿子Emanuel Kahsai被指控犯有一级和二级谋杀罪。

Calgary Police Service gets roughly 18,000 domestic-related calls every year — somebody is afraid, because something is not right at home.

 

Staff Sgt. Rob Davidson, the local law’s domestic conflict unit head, said that number “is a lot,” in the wake of the city’s latest dometic-related homicide, the slaying of Selamawit Alem, 54, who died alongside Julie Tran, 25, in Coventry Hills last month.

Alem’s son, Emanuel Kahsai, 30, has been charged with first-degree and second-degree murder in their deaths.

Davidson also said a very low percentage of them actually result in criminal charges.

Domestic conflict is complex, he said, and that’s what his team of four civilian risk assessors and 38 officers are tasked with sorting through, to figure out where police intervention is appropriate and where community resources would be more appropriate.

“Please reach out — to us or to one of our community partners — and we’ll do what we can to help,” Davidson told media at a press conference Saturday about the recent murders.

“Police are generally not the right resource or the subject matter experts to do that, but none the less we became aware of that call for service,” he said.

“We attended and we spoke to the people and we’re obligated to — and we need to — look into that.”

Davidson called the double homicide case and other cases like it, “A very sad reality.”

Police had been to the home before and Alem had emergency protection orders granted against her son, but what cops were told and what courts were told by the complainant didn’t line up.

“The challenge is, are we being given all the information?” Davidson said.

Davidson said when his unit becomes aware of court processes in place, “Absolutely we can have access to it.”

And the more complete picture that comes with it — he said processes have recently been put in place with the courts to get officers access to such information, even if they weren’t directly called.