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NAPLES, Fla.- Law enforcement officials in Collier County spend 29 percent of their time on domestic violence calls. “Domestic violence is probably one of the most common violent crimes we see in our community,” said Linda Oberhaus, director of the Shelter for Abused Women and Children. Local authorities are now working with the shelter in a unique program designed to try and determine which victims’ lives could be in danger. “The reason we started doing this is because when we looked at the fatality review reports, what we found is the large majority of women killed as a result of domestic violence never got help at a local domestic violence center,” said Oberhaus. The shelter goes through police reports with officials to see which women are at high risk. “They’ll put out those reports that have indicators that that person is at risk for domestic violence homicide,” said Oberhaus, “whether or not she had been strangled, if she had been battered while pregnant, if he used a weapon during that incident, if he threatened to kill her.” According to a report from the Florida Attorney General, last year nearly 200 women were killed as a result of domestic violence. Nineteen-percent of the victims had no contact orders. “Even if these victims don’t come into service, the important thing is that they know these services exist for them in the event they need them in the future,” Oberhaus said.