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When intervention might increase harm

I called the police on my upstairs neighbor for domestic violence and now I'm worried I put his girlfriend in more danger

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impulse to help can trigger systems that escalate rather than resolve the very danger they're meant to address.

Worth thinking about

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