Brian Stanley

One of my clients died yesterday. She was an absolutely lovely woman, full of faith and joy and light. She cared deeply about the people around her. She was a source of encouragement and support to the women she was incarcerated with. She was 51 years old and had spent 28 years in prison.

Brian Stanley Home Page, Background, OPDV The homepage of Brian Stanley, a lead scholar on police-officer perpetrated domestic violence (OPDV), also known as officer-involved domestic violence (OIDV). The page contains information on Brian St...

So excited to have my website out - check here for my active work!! (I feature my Bluesky posts there too, so it’s a good trade)

brianstanleyresearch.com

#OPDV #OIDV #DomesticViolence #DV #IPV #IntimatePartnerViolence #GBV #PoliceDomesticViolence #PublicHealth #Survivors #Research #SocialWelfare #PublicPolicy #CriminalLegalSystem #ZeroTolerance #PoliceCulture

Slide 5 description: brown background with a white box outline tucked in on the edge. There are two bullet points following a header. Slide 5 text: What does this paper do? Bullet point 1: Provide one of the most comprehensive pieces on OPDV in decades. Bullet point 2: Ring the alarm bell on the issue and call on academics and practitioners to do more/better work.

Slide 6 description: brown background with a white box outline tucked in on the edge. There are two bullet points following a header. Slide 6 text: What does this paper not do? Bullet point 1: offer a survivor-informed lens on the issue. Bullet point 2: Provide a cure-all for the harm done/institutional betrayal of survivors

Slide 7 description: brown background with a white box outline tucked in on the edge. There are three bullet points following a header. Slide 7 text: What can future work do? Bullet point 1: diagnose and begin repairing harm done through institutional betrayal. Bullet point 2: Resource gender-based violence prevention efforts with abundance. Bullet point 3: Create alternative domestic violence response systems not linked to the criminal-legal system.

Slide 8 description: Dark-gray background with a yellow box outline tucked in on the edge. Two large quotation marks appear on the page, at the beginning and end of the quote. Slide 8 text: "Without a cardinal shift toward survivor-centered inquiry and systemic accountability, OPDV will continue to serve as both a case study and a warning: When the powerful control a narrative, the vulnerable are robbed of care and accountability.

Slide 1 - title slide - description: brown background with a white box outline tucked in on the edge. Slide 1 title text: Leaving Brame Behind: An Urgent Call to Shift the Focus of Police Officer-Perpetrated Domestic Violence Research. Then, in the bottom right, it says: "click next" with a right arrow.

Slide 2 description: brown background with a white box outline tucked in on the edge. There are 4 bullet points. Slide 2 text: Bullet point 1: The only US-based survivor-centered pieces on OPDV came out in 1991 and 1992. Bullet point 2: Both papers found at least 40% of officers had violently lost control in the last year. Bullet point 3: Since then, no other papers on OPDV have centered survivors. Bullet point 4: There have been several officer-facing pieces

Slide 3 description: brown background with a white box outline tucked in on the edge. Slide 3 text: As a consequence, officer-abuser knowledge on OPDV has been exclusively prioritized by academics for nearly three decades.

Slide 4 description: Teal-gray background with a white box outline tucked in on the edge. Two large quotation marks appear on the page, at the beginning and end of the quote. Slide 4 text: "...couple with the sole elevation of officer-abuser perspective in OPDV, means that police culture has infected the totality of our contemporary understanding of the issue."

At the end of June, my article on Police Officer-Perpetrated Domestic Violence (OPDV) was published in Violence Against Women. I’ve now added it to ResearchGate and created this summary deck as a way to counter the many silos paywalls create.

ResearchGate: bit.ly/41pSEve
VAW: bit.ly/4fuaUJQ

Pregnancy is a minefield when you're disabled Few OB-GYNs get disability training—and their disabled patients are far likelier to die.

Few OB-GYNs get disability training—and their disabled patients are far likelier to die. #MsReads via @motherjones.com
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Minnesota Shooting Wasn’t Random—It Was a Predictable Resurgence of Violence Minnesota experienced an act of devastating political violence last month: Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, were killed in their home. State Sen. John Hoff...

"Ultimately, we need cultural accountability. Media narratives often present abortion as a political story, rather than a human experience disrupted by politics."

Excellent piece in @msmagazine.com by @depechealamode.bsky.social and @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social - thanks for offering us so much!

Thank you so much!!

#OPDV #OIDV #DomesticViolence #DV #IPV #IntimatePartnerViolence #GBV #PoliceDomesticViolence #PublicHealth #Survivors #Research #SocialWelfare #PublicPolicy #CriminalLegalSystem #ZeroTolerance #PoliceCulture

Thrilled to pass along that, after years of focus, collaboration, and support, my first paper on police officer-perpetrated domestic violence (OPDV) has made it into a journal. If you are paywalled out of the work, or want to discuss / collaborate on OPDV, don't hesitate to reach out
bit.ly/44hgwle

Congrats @mixedkracker.bsky.social - I heard it was an excellent presentation at ASHE too!! Excited to see what’s next (:

Hundreds of domestic abuse victims face jail under new law Women who call police to help deal with abusive partners are being criminalised for assaulting emergency workers

Call the police for help, get arrested--in the US and in the UK. Police don't keep victims of intimate partner violence safe. #ImperfectVictims www.opendemocracy.net/en/domestic-...

An uncomfortable truth: police already know about many offenders who murder women Guardian Australia has asked every police jurisdiction how it assesses risk in family violence offenders to get a better understanding of how the system should work

An uncomfortable truth: police already know about many offenders who murder women

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr...

Anti-violence community, now is the time to say loudly and emphatically: the fact that Jennifer Vasquez Sura sought a protective order against Kilmar Abrego Garcia does not justify deporting him without due process to a country where his life is in danger and to a prison that is a torture factory.

The Feminist Law Professor Who Wants to Stop Arresting People for Domestic Violence For years, Leigh Goodmark was convinced that the way to keep women safe was through arrests and prosecutions. Now she’s pushing for the opposite.

Really worth reading
"The legal system does not make abused women safer; instead, it makes their problems worse. [Leigh Goodmark] is the country’s most prominent proponent of decriminalizing domestic violence—that is, addressing the problem w/out recourse to police or prosecutors" @newyorker.com

As research funding dries up for US science, few alternatives appear Private investors unlikely to support basic biomedical research

As research funding dries up for US science, few alternatives appear. If researchers can't rely on federal dollars, they will have to look elsewhere to fund their projects—or risk leaving the work to die on laboratory benches. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... 🧪

An ‘Apple Store’ government and other takeaways from Musk’s interview on Fox News “In the context of the government we’re moving like lightning,” Musk said.

As a nonprofit manager in the last era of Steve Jobs Silicon Valley, I am appalled Apple storification is still trending and aspirational. The model doesn't even work in retail.

This classic tech aesthetics over functionality.

Much waste, very inefficient.

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

How a well-intended California domestic violence law results in victims being arrested | Opinion The California Penal Code requires officers to make an arrest in domestic violence incidents, sometimes leading to victims being detained.

Mandatory arrest laws in domestic violence cases are ineffective, unnecessary, and lead to the arrests of survivors of violence, even in places where police are told to determine who the primary aggressor is. It's long past time to repeal them. calmatters.org/commentary/2...

Huge thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social for reviewing / publishing this piece!

#STATFirstOpinion

Philanthropy can help create a healthier biotech ecosystem Small biotech companies are the heart of drug innovation, but they need help. Philanthropy is their best hope.

Oh no- some of my interest areas are colliding! @mixedkracker.bsky.social and I have a new piece out in STAT First Opinion about the role philanthropy should take on in drug innovation - read more here!

www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/b...

#druginnovation #philanthropy #socialjusticephilanthropy

Philanthropy can help create a healthier biotech ecosystem Small biotech companies are the heart of drug innovation, but they need help. Philanthropy is their best hope.

In all the chaos surrounding the future of government funded scientific research and biomedical innovation, it’s time for philanthropy to step up where the government is failing.

Read more in my first op ed w/ @brianstanley.bsky.social

www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/b...

I'm an Incarcerated Nurse -- Women's Health in Prison Is Hell and Will Only Get Worse Under Trump Kwaneta Harris talks health in prison — and on the outside.

Another phenomenal piece of reporting from @kwanetaharris.bsky.social. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

‘No Way’ to Please Everyone: Columbia’s President Confronts Trump’s Ultimatum With Trump intent on making an example of Columbia, Armstrong is at the center of a fight over the future of higher education.

‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped

‘He knows how to make sure that there is no evidence’: when your domestic violence abuser is a police officer One person said: ‘I had to report at the police station where he works, where everybody knows everybody’.

Where do you seek help when your abuser is a police officer?

Our latest Conversation article examines the experiences of 17 victim-survivors of domestic violence perpetrated by a partner who is or was a police officer.

👉🏼 Read our article here: theconversation.com/he-knows-how...

I also just closed 160+ open tabs related to the paper and heard my computer’s fan slow down, RIP

Just finished a paper on OPDV after 3 years of development. I put the final version into Notebook LM for the first time and it gave the exact summary I wanted it too - literally nothing has been that validating

#OPDV #OIDV #DomesticViolence #DV #IPV #IntimatePartnerViolence #GBV #PoliceDomesticViolence #PublicHealth #Survivors #Research #SocialWelfare #PublicPolicy #CriminalLegalSystem #ZeroTolerance #PoliceCulture

Brian Stanley (@brianstanley.bsky.social) Issues with estimating the size of Police Officer-Perpetrated Domestic Violence (OPDV), a thread 🧵📊📈

Police Officer-Perpetrated Domestic Violence goes far beyond a few “bad apples.” The issue is urgent, and survivors have largely been left behind. See an earlier thread for issues with estimating the scale of the issue - TL;DR: We need more research/action on it ASAP!

bit.ly/4hAIbD3

OPDV is a wide spread problem - the Henry A Wallace Police Crime database found it reported in media articles in every state between 2005-2017, and it made up ~14% of all media-documented police crime database here - bit.ly/3DTs1Gk