Resources

On June 19, 2019, the African-American Roundtable and 45 community partners launched LiberateMKE, a campaign to invest $25 million into the community programs that advance community safety and well-being, and divest $25 million from the Milwaukee Police Department. Over the summer of 2019, LiberateMKE surveyed over 1,100 people across the city of Milwaukee, in every aldermanic district, to see how residents really want the city to spend their money.

A report that surveyed 12 local community organizations in Portland, Oregon about the harms of policing and their visions for building real community care and resources.

The ACLU decided to conduct an investigation on how the Nebraska State Patrol and law enforcement agencies in Nebraska’s largest and most diverse counties are complying with existing state laws meant to mitigate and eradicate racial profiling. This report includes an in-depth look into existing anti-racial profiling policies and law enforcement’s efforts, if any, to utilize anti-bias training in their work. Finally, this report details specific and practical policy solutions for all stakeholders to explore and implement.

BreakOUT! created this 2014 report in an effort to educate other young people, educate decision-makers in New Orleans, maintain pressure on the city to implement policing reforms, measure the effectiveness of ongoing policing reforms, and document stories and strategies of BreakOUT! organizers. This report also shows how criminalization encompasses more than just policing and highlights the work of BreakOUT! to “starve” the system by preventing arrests and incarceration.

This report calls for an expansion of messaging and responses to more explicitly center the experiences of Black women, girls, trans and gender nonconforming people. It also calls on contemporary anti-violence movements to expand the current focus on sexual violence by politicians, in the entertainment industry and in the workplace to include settings in which Black women, girls, trans and gender nonconforming people’s experiences of sexual violence remain largely shrouded in silence, including schools, foster care systems, police interactions, and prisons.

. Under the banner “Free the City, Heal the City,” Chicago’s cross-sectoral and intergenerational organizing community is calling on the new city leadership to adopt a whole new politic – one that conclusively rejects privatization of public goods, disinvestment from low-income communities and communities of color, and reliance on policing and criminalization as the primary response to social problems and substitute for social services and social goods. There is much we can learn from Chicago’s journey to this moment and the visions for the city that are emerging during this transition.

A policy brief written by Andrea J. Ritchie and Monique W. Morris, Ed.D., that highlights the need to provide sanctuary and build toward freedom by challenging and eliminating immigration enforcement and policing practices that cause harm to Black women, as well as create conditions that will ensure safety from interpersonal and intra-communal violence for Black women, girls, gender nonconforming people and fem(me)s.

According to the FBI’s hate crime statistics, almost 20 percent of all hate crime victims in 2015 were targeted because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender. This report documents the findings of the Forum on Gender, Sexuality, and 21st Century Policing and puts for policy recommendations for improving safety and support for the LGBTQ+ community.

This toolkit is a starting place for the Freedom Cities movement to collectively answer the question: As we demand an end to the municipal policies and practices that harm us, what vision are we offering in its place that unites and builds the leadership of all marginalized communities?