"35% Of Domestic Violence Incidents Involved a Violent Act" Wait! What?

The Delaware Domestic Violence Coordinating Council (DVCC) is a state agency created by an act of legislation in the 1990's. The main purpose of this state agency was to facilitate the allocation of federal and state money to the various agencies that are placed under their umbrella to address the issue of domestic violence.
Each fiscal year, the DVCC publishes their Annual Report which highlights specific data regarding initiatives and statistical information throughout the state regarding domestic violence.
I was looking through the report and this particular piece of data caught my eye​
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"In FY 2016, 35% of domestic violence incidents involved a violent act."

I  read it and re-read it, just to make sure I was accurately seeing these exact words.  I thought, "Surely, this has to be a typo!"  But, it wasn't.
This was the equivalent of saying -  35% "bank robbery incidents involved an act of robbery,  or 35% of automobile theft incidents involved an incident of theft.
So essentially 2 out of 3 of your defintion of domestic violence involves no act of violence?
Ludicrous, right?  With any other "crime," or study thereof, this type of asinine data would not be allowed to pass as public policy. But, because legislators are afraid of being labeled as soft on domestic violence, no one--not Republican, nor certainly not Democrat--ever dare question policy creation, or the ear marked allocated funds to the multiple state agencies.

From Legislative Hall to the DOJ, in cartel fashion, the DDVCC has created a perfect circle of protection for their promotion of illegitimate DV polices and funding allocations.
A clear example of this was during last years legislative session for the time in the history of the State Legislature, a bill
(SB 99) was introduced to confront and address the dirty little secret of the DDVCC - the State through tax payer money was rewarding false allegations of domestic violence - What the bill essentially said was perjury, false police reports, false allegations were criminal acts and should/would be treated as such.
The Bill would be "tabled" in committee or in other words thrown in the Legislative waste basket.
This type of legislative power and control is used under the guise of "protecting" victims but in reality it's primary focus is in protecting their well doctored numbers.

Domestic Violence does happen.  But, it is disingenuous, and down right criminal, the way the DDVCC has been able to erode due process, and perpetuate myth over facts.

The very powerful 18 member council operates above any eye of critique, and has successfully redefined, expanded and diluted the very definition of domestic violence--in that hurt feelings could fit into its (quite often) unquantifiable denotation of the crime of domestic violence.

It does not take a proverbial Einstein to see the -  "35% of domestic violence incidents involved a violent act"  from the annual report clearly show something is not quite right. 
If 2 out of 3 incidents of Domestic Violence involve no act of violence, it may be time to redefine the term in today"s politically correct landscape. 

Gordon Smith