sentences:  Statistics on incidence of domestic violence, published in the late 1970s, helped raise public awareness of the problem and increase activism.A study published in 1976 by the Police Foundation found that the police had intervened at least once in the previous two years in 85 percent of spouse homicides.In the late 1970s and early 1980s, feminists and battered women's advocacy groups were calling on police to take domestic violence more seriously and change intervention strategies.