To support and help strengthen the work of advocates and organizers, the Hub is committed to providing and uplifting up-to-date research, reports, data, model policies, toolkits and other resources. We do this by searching for, categorizing, and making available existing resources from partner organizations and others working on issues related to policing. When needed, the Hub also produces its own research in collaboration with partners. This resource database is categorized, easy to search, and regularly updated by our research team.
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Resources that appear on the Community Resource Hub website are not necessarily supported or endorsed by the Hub. The resources that appear represent various different policies, toolkits, and data that have been presented to challenge issues relevant to safety, policing, and accountability.
Congress of Day Laborers/Congreso de Jornaleros
Created by BreakOUT! and the Congress of Day Laborers, this toolkit includes resources on organizing across intersections of identities, including race, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, country of origin, and language. This toolkit focus on collaboration between organizations in New Orleans, Louisiana, and provides information on adopting these techniques to other contexts.
BreakOUT!
A toolkit created by BreakOUT! and Streetwise and Safe (SAS). This toolkit is meant to serve as a resource to share the ways people directly impacted by profiling, policing, and criminalization have made changes in policies that affect material conditions and lived realities of criminalized lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and two-spirit (LGBTQTS) youth on the ground. The intention is to make the resources, strategies, and policies that can contribute to addressing the profiling, policing and criminalization of LGBTQTS youth broadly available to a wide range of organizations across the country.
Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
A toolkit highlighting rights of trans and gender non-conforming youth in New York City.
Radio Canada Internacional
Después de casi una década de presencia de policías armados en 45 escuelas secundarias de la ciudad de Toronto, el Consejo Escolar del Distrito de Toronto (Toronto District School Board, TDSB), decidió retirarlos la semana pasada.
After almost a decade of armed police in 45 secondary schools in Toronto, the School Board decided to remove them last week.
#WeAreUofT
#WeAreUofT picks up on heated debates around the Toronto Police Service and their School Resource Officer program. Established in 2008 – just one year after 15-year-old Jordan Manners was fatally shot in the chest at C.W. Jeffery’s Collegiate Institute in Toronto’s west end. This podcast includes input of teachers and community organizers arguing that the School Resource Program puts youth in danger and replicates patterns of anti-Black racism and violence against working class communities within the city more broadly.
Communities for Just Schools Fund
CJSF’s Thena Robinson Mock speaks with Toronto community organizers and officials about the powerful community organizing that led to the end of Toronto’s School Resource Officer (SRO) Program in 2017.
Project NIA
A series of reports from 2010 to 2014 documenting data and trends on school-based arrests of Chicago youth.
Learning for Justice
Teachers have a unique window into the lives of students and, collectively, have been a powerful force of resistance in many vulnerable parts of the country. This toolkit offers a suggestion for how teachers can advocate for family members who have been detained as well as other useful resources that can help prepare and inform the entire school community.
The Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College
In order to reduce our reliance on the criminal justice system, we need to invest in building stronger communities capable of dealing with their problems in non-coercive and non-punitive ways. Across the US local and national organizations are working to divest from policing and prisons and invest in communities and individuals. This provides an example list of platforms, organizations, and other resources that aim to build stronger communities.
