Resources

In March 2018, police in Sacramento, California killed Stephon Clark, an unarmed 22-year-old, in his grandparents’ backyard. A year later, District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert’s announcement that charges would not be filed against the two officers responsible for his death became the latest flashpoint for the Black Lives Matter movement. Appeal staff reporter Aaron Morrison provides the latest on the protests in Sacramento and how activists are working to hold police accountable and seek justice for Stephon Clark.

A collection of data as the result of multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests sent by Lucy Parsons Labs over the past year showing the execution of search warrants issued throughout Chicago. Working alongside FOIA expert and data scientist Matt Chapman, Lucy Parsons Labs is also providing a data visualization tool, allowing the public to analyze the data. It can be viewed online and includes census-tract level of detail.

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.

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.

“Justicia de Sanación es un marco que identifica como podemos responder de manera holística e intervenir sobre el trauma y la violencia intergeneracional, y traer prácticas colectivas que puedan impactar y transformar las consecuencias de la opresión en nuestros cuerpos colectivos, corazones y mentes.” ~ Cara Page

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 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.

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.

This toolkit is intended to help activists, organizations, and communities identify and act on solutions to change policing for the better in their own communities.