The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP)

The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP) was born of the struggles of one tenacious survivor of domestic violence and stalking. The NCIDP continues her work with the help of many. Read more about the NCIDP...

If existing criminal laws against stalking and domestic violence had been strongly pursued, 9/11 might never have happened.

Most individuals with the Abusive Personality Disorder (APD) that it takes to organize acts of terrorism will terrorize those closest to them first and worst.

Several domestic violence and stalking case files show that participants in the planning and logistics of the 9/11 attacks would have been unable to participate in that planning and support, would have been in prison and "out of circulation", if their reported domestic violence and stalking activities had been properly pursued and prosecuted.

Important new medical statistics from the CDC (01/2012) on that violence are telling, although they significantly understate the incidence of these forms of violence by ignoring those who have already died at the hands of their perpetrators (these statistics only survey living women, i.e. survivors, omitting the dead). Moreover, shame and culturally prevalent victim blaming, broadly intractable in a rape culture, continue to reduce rates of self-reporting of these crimes. WORSE, tragically, see what happens to some victims of rape when they seek medical treatment and reporting (http://cases.NCIDPolicy.org/fwcs_rapist_protection_at_lyon_martin.html), to cause even more underreporting.

NEVERTHELESS, this study offers one of the most probative and informative large-scale investigations of this epidemic in recent history.

1 in 2 women & men (48%-49%) experience psychological violence committed by an intimate partner.
1 in 2 women (45%) are victims of SEXUAL violence OTHER THAN RAPE. 1 in 5 (22%) men likewise experience sexual violence other than rape.
1 in 3 women (36%) are victims of rape, stalking, and/or physical abuse BY AN INTIMATE PARTNER. Meanwhile, MEN ARE LIKEWISE VICTIMIZED WITH ONLY SLIGHLY LESS FREQUENCY (29%), but ARE FAR LESS LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE MULTIPLE TYPES OF THESE FORMS OF VIOLENCE, most often experiencing strictly physical abuse, less severe abuse, and suffer much less negative and long-term impacts.
1 in 4 women (24%) are victims of physical abuse BY AN INTIMATE PARTNER. 1 in 7 men (14%) experience similar violence
1 in 5 women (18%) are victims of rape, more than half of which (51%) are committed by an intimate partner, and another 41% of which are committed by an acquaintance. In other words, 92% of all rapes of women are committed by someone known to the victim, and only 8% are stranger rapes. [NOTE that victims "made to penetrate" their perpetrators sexually are excluded from this rape statistic which particularly causes the incidence of the rape of men to be grossly underreported at 1 in 71 (1%).]
1 in 6 women (16%) are victims of stalking, two-thirds (66%) of which were committed by a current or former intimate partner.

The pages of The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP) are dedicated to the victims of these crimes and the cause for justice and personal safety and freedom for those victims. Here can be found information about the violent culture of perpetration and rape culture, that engenders such terrible statistics; information about the rights of victims (and everyone else) to protect themselves (and yourself), particularly the rights to protect and control identity information and remain anonymous; as well as myriad other facts of law and history relating to those rights. For context and emphasis, a number of Case Studies highlight real-life perpetration cases and expose numerous, often horrific, perpetrations that rarely make the front pages in a rape culture society – and demonstrate that you don't fight the violence epidemic in a rape culture society with more rape culture tactics.

The power to dictate another's identity, examine the acceptability and validity of another's identity, to adjudge another's identity in any way – that is the power of ownership, and the ultimate symbol of enslavement, regardless of whether you agree with the adjudgment or not. The person that owns another's identity owns that other person.

If we had instead asked on our entrance page, "Who owns you?", would there be a breath's hesitation? [Entrance Page].

Both questions are the same question, and understanding that is the key to understanding the critical importance of retaining personal power, autonomy and control over one's own identity. "You are a slave when you no longer are who you say you are, who you believe yourself to be; when how you choose to represent that self to the world is no longer dictated exclusively by you, but by any other instead." [JaneDoe].

FOR survivors of violence, it's a lethal issue.

The National Council on Identity Policy is devoted to the subject of personal identity information and the fight against violence; the laws of the land that empower individuals in their own identities and over their own, owned, identity information; the exercise by individuals of their ownership of their identity information, "the most valuable, most intimate possession that can ever be owned." [Identity & Law].

We are here to make sure you know that you do still own yourself, your name, your person, your being, and all that describes you. It is you, and it is yours – you are yours. [Identity & Law].

We are also here to let you know how essential that is - how essential that is not only to your personal right over your identity, but also to personal safety, and to the very existence and meaning of freedom and liberty itself. [Case Studies]. Indeed, what may be little more than inconvenience to you, or no matter at all if you happened to agree with any adjudgments made of your identity; what may be so little or nothing to you is killing many innocent victims every day.

We at the NCIDP are an organization of, about, by, and for survivors of violence. We have developed expertise on the subject of the care and control of personal identity information to the end that it empowers us to survive our perpetrators.

What we have learned is important for everyone. [History of Identity & Documents].

We have been at this work for more than 15 years, since before much public awareness or concern about "identity theft" arose. We guarantee that the subsequent epidemic of identity theft would not have happened and unfolded as it did if existing laws and identity property protections were enforced consistently and appropriately. We believe that it is long overdue for U.S. Attorneys nationwide to protect lives and enforce the laws in these matters and manners that we discuss here – that we have discussed for more than a decade. Federal prosecutors could have prevented the identity theft epidemic from ever happening simply by prosecuting these existing laws consistently, as we discuss.

The usual cautionary note: we are only disclosing facts of law and propriety here, not providing legal advice to you in your particular circumstances. The information on this website obviously cannot serve as legal advice to you in your particular situation.

An additional cautionary note for other survivors of violence: read the NCIDP case studies, become informed of the reperpetrations that you may expect while enforcing your basic rights to survive with those who purport to offer you aid and assistance – too many of them are dangerous, homicidal perpetrators in their own right. [Case Studies].