Hi Alice. I'd like you to visit my apartment complex.

My nice neighbor downstairs came to my door (after the police arrived) the night her boyfriend held a knife to her throat. She went back to him and they moved out last month.

My new, single neighbor across the hall from me (2nd floor) has a child. Two weekends ago she had a fight with a guy while holding her front door open so I could hear everything. Screaming so loud I peeped through the peephole (that's what it's for, right?) She's yelling, "Get out of my house!" at the top of her lungs and he's tanding next to her saying, "Let me stay." While I watched he spit in her face. I don't know if she threw the knife at him before or after that happened.

They went downstairs and I yelled out the window that she should call 911 or I would. A guy friend of hers came by and they went upstairs. The police came. I did not call them.

Violence is everywhere. At home, in the schoolyard, in the workplace. I surely hope you find the source so it can be knocked out.