The Denver County Strangulation Response Protocol Committee has released a new report that highlights blind spots in responses to strangulation reports while also outlining changes to its protocol.
The committee includes prosecutors, medical professionals, law enforcement representatives, community advocacy groups and more from across the area.
According to the report, strangulation is the second-deadliest form of assault, only behind gun violence, and non-fatal strangulation precedes intimate partner murder and attempted murder in almost half of the cases…