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NEW YORK CITY
COMMUNITY HEALTH
AND WELLBEING
INITIATIVE
RESEARCH
A Research Analysis on Health & Safety In New York City
How OIDV impacts Women’s Safety in New York City
Officer-Involved Domestic Violence (OIDV) represents a critical gap in law enforcement accountability, with officers perpetrating abuse against intimate partners, family members, and children while leveraging professional authority to evade consequences. This article examines systemic patterns of retaliation within the New York Police Department (NYPD), including report tampering, surveillance misuse, professional sabotage, and institutional cover-ups. Drawing on legal analys
Sade Eastmond
Apr 221 min read
How Alcohol is Used to Abuse Women in New York City
Alcohol is the most commonly used substance in the facilitation of sexual assault, yet its role is often minimized by cultural narratives that treat intoxication as a social lubricant rather than a pharmacological weapon. This research article examines how alcohol systematically dismantles the neurobiological infrastructure of women’s autonomy, from prefrontal cortex suppression that impairs consent and decision making, to hippocampal disruption that erases memory of violatio
Sade Eastmond
Mar 316 min read
How Safety Impacts Women’s Brains in New York City
Women navigating New York City perform constant, invisible neurological labor that physically alters their brains. A convergence of neuroscience, public health data, and sociological research reveals that the chronic threat calculus women perform in urban environments produces measurable changes in brain structure and function, from amygdala hypertrophy to prefrontal cortex erosion. In New York City, where 71.5% of surveyed residents have experienced street harassment and 75%
Sade Eastmond
Mar 313 min read
How to Spot A Dangerous Man in New York City
Drawing on NYPD domestic violence records, CDC national surveillance data, Bureau of Justice Statistics reports, DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), and established research on the Dark Triad, coercive control, and predatory grooming, this article examines who dangerous men are, how they operate, where they target women, what warning signs they exhibit, and what evidence-based strategies women can employ for self-protection. This research art
Sade Eastmond
Mar 127 min read
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