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.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Spot the Surveillance is a virtual reality (VR) experience that teaches people how to identify the various spying technologies that police may deploy in communities.
No Music for ICE
In response to the Amazon Web Services music festival, a coalition of musicians and bands put together a resource of reports and articles around Amazon’s collaboration with ICE and law enforcement.
Caroline Z. Oliveira (New York University)
A thesis on the history of video surveillance in the criminal justice field (cameras, bodyworn cameras, dashcam footage, etc.) and issues with recording, preserving, accessing videos and privacy concerns.
NYU School of Law Policing Project
Through research compiled by Policing Project staff, the independent Ethics Board examined law enforcement’s use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), the resulting threats to civil liberties and racial justice, and the possibility for the rise of pervasive surveillance systems. The Board concluded that the growing availability of low-cost ALPR systems, which would be further propelled by Axon’s entry into the ALPR market, has the potential to increase dramatically law enforcement’s use of the technology. The Board further concluded that the use of ALPRs is precariously unregulated or under-regulated in many jurisdictions.
Andrea J. Ritchie
Intended for use by individuals, classrooms, book clubs, and organizations, the Invisible No More Study and Discussion Guide breaks down key concepts and offers reflection questions, exercises, and self-care tips designed to make Invisible No More more accessible to students, activists, and readers of all kinds!
Critical Resistance
A resource that gives an overview of the negative consequences of jails and prisons, examples of reforms that can perpetuate those negative consequences, and puts forth policy and advocacy recommendations for alternatives to reliance on imprisonment.
Critical Resistance
As resistance to the US imprisonment system grows, states and local jurisdictions have turned toward expanding their jail systems under the guise of making them seem more accommodating and service friendly. This chart provides examples of some common reforms or proposals around jails that only uphold their legitimacy and continue oppressive functions of jailing and initiatives to support instead.
Water Protector Legal Collective
A collection of legal resources geared towards those involved in water protector activism, including digital security and self-defense tools, your rights within immigration and border zones, and how to interact with law enforcement when demonstrating or if law enforcement comes to you.
Center for Constitutional Rights
A briefing guide that highlights several key documents that have been turned over so far in CCR, Color of Change, and the Kramer Law Clinic’s attempt to uncover how the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are monitoring and surveilling public protests regarding police violence, racial justice, and the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). While many of these documents were fully or partially redacted, it is clear from their substance that the FBI and DHS (including their subagencies) are surveilling the M4BL as well as Black activists and organizers, reinforcing a law enforcement narrative that broadly criminalizes Black protestors.
