Thank you for that clarification.
I guess where I'm struggling with this is that we have these cities—my city, Peterborough, is one of them—that have declared intimate partner violence an epidemic, a crisis. I'm not sure why we would want to remove that word. Maybe if we added “and persons”.... However, if we remove “intimate partner”, what message are we sending when this is an epidemic in the country, in each city?
That's my concern with the removal of this word.