Domestic violence was the focus in The New York Times over the weekend, as they profiled the March 7 th murder-suicide of Nadia Saavedra at the hands of her estranged husband, Alejandro Uribe. Although the murder of a woman at the hands of an estranged husband or boyfriend is, sadly, a frequent occurrence, the tale of Ms. Saavedra and Mr. Uribe was front page news. It also drew the attention of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration. “Nadia Saavedra’s death underscores the urgent need to intervene well before violence happens,” said Sarah Solon, the spokeswoman for the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. The Times seems to have focused on the Saavedra murder because there was virtually no police involvement for the couple prior to the murder, which according to the article, is not uncommon. As murders in New York City have fallen to record lows in recent years, domestic killings have come to make up an ever larger part of detectives’ workloads. The cases often take