In this guest column by UTMB’s Jeff Temple: The arrest in recent weeks of more than 30 fugitives wanted in Harris County on domestic violence charges should bring home the fact that intimate partner violence is widespread. Last year, and the year before, the Harris County District Attorney's office filed more than 10,500 cases of domestic violence. Thirty people were killed in cases of domestic violence in the county, the most in the state. Violence against women is a pervasive and widespread plague on our society — one that crosses geographic, economic and racial lines.