The enhancing investigations and prosecution of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (EIP) encourages law enforcement agencies and/or prosecutors offices to expand and…

The City of New York, through its New York County District Attorney's Office, received a $483,520 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women under the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (CFDA 16.590). The grant funds a 3-year initiative to improve the investigation and prosecution of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking cases in Manhattan, New York. Key project activities include: 1) Implementing an Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Early Engagement Team model to enhance case investigation and prosecution; 2) Developing survivor and trauma-informed investigation and prosecution protocols; 3) Creating a pre-arrest risk and lethality assessment tool; 4) Developing a strategic plan to increase service access for all survivors; and 5) Implementing new tracking protocols for intimate partner and sexual violence cases to improve data-driven prosecution. This grant aims to support victim safety, offender accountability, and community trust in the criminal justice system's response to these critical issues.

The enhancing investigations and prosecution of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (EIP) encourages law enforcement agencies and/or prosecutors offices to expand and improve their capacity to effectively investigate and/or prosecute domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and in so doing, support victim safety and autonomy, hold offenders accountable, and promote agency trust within the surrounding community. The EIP project by manhattan district attorneys office, in partnership with the northern manhattan improvement incorporation, to implement in manhattan, NY addresses EIP purpose areas: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Additionally, this project addresses OVW priority area 1: access to justice; priority area 2: services to sexual assault survivors. Specific activities include: 1) implement an intimate partner and sexual violence early engagement team model to improve investigation and prosecution of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking cases; 2) support the development of survivor and trauma-informed investigation and prosecution protocols; 3) support the development of a pre-arrest risk and lethality assessment tool; 4) develop a strategic plan for increasing service access for all survivors; and 5) implement new tracking protocols for intimate partner and sexual violence cases, utilizing data metrics analysis to improve prosecution.