In listening to families impacted by police violence and engaging in exhaustive literature, study, legal research and lived experience of community-appointed Police Commissioners, APTP has created this Best Practices Guide to support local organizers interested in supporting change to bring an end to the systemic police violence, abuse and murder against Black, Brown, Indigenous, Queer and marginalized people. Findings indicate that best practice requires the establishment of an all-civilian oversight structure with discipline power that includes both a Civilian Complaints Office and a Police Commission.

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