Nearly 2,000 women killed by men in 2017, report urges reauthorization of Violence Against Women Act

A new study from the Violence Policy Center revealed that nearly 2,000 women were killed by men in 2017, almost all by men they knew.

, analyzed incidents involving one man murdering one woman.

The data, pulled from the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Report, showed that 92 percent of women were killed by men they already knew and 62 percent were killed by their husband or intimate partner, most commonly with a gun.Black women were disproportionately affected, with murder rates twice the national average. Certain states also had higher rates of violence, with the top five being Alaska, Louisiana, Arkansas, Nevada, and South Carolina and Tennessee tied for fifth.

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