Sade Eastmond

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 analyses, policy...

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 violation, to amygdala...

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% of women report...