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.
Youth Educating Police (YEP)
Youth Educating Police strives to be a valued source in the community for incitng change and building stronger bonds between not only youth but also our adult counterparts. This is a list of policy recommendations at the local Portland level, the Oregon state level, and the national level.
Dream Defenders
The Freedom Papers is a vision for a future that is able to serve the everyday needs of its people. The toolkit is designed to promote community-based and online conversations about the future the Freedom Papers is fighting for, and the big corporations who are standing in the way of this vision. It also aims to educate about private prisons and lobbying impacts on the political system and experiences of the community, as well as provide a framework for pressuring politicians.
Vera Institute of Justice
Emerging Issues in American Policing is a quarterly digest intended for police-practitioners and community members that presents innovations in the field of policing from the leading academic journals and research publications. The April 2019 issue includes “Mental Health Calls in a Rural Police Department,” “Racial Disparities in Nashville’s Traffic Stops,” “Crisis Intervention Team Training for Youth and Officer Awareness,” and more.
Live Free USA (PICO California)
A report that details biased police practices and their effects on communities. It also provides a set of best practices implemented across the country that can be used to challenge counties and local municipalities into adopting reforms.
Joscha Legewie (Harvard University), Jeffrey Fagan (Columbia Law School)
This report examines the first causal evidence of the impact of aggressive policing on minority youths’ educational performance in NYC. Using data collected from 250,000 adolescents ages nine to 15, results support the idea that exposure to increased police presence significantly reduced test scores for African American boys.
Vera Institute of Justice
A report that details the US justice system’s historical and current bias against Black Americans, including police practices.
ACLU
A report with policy recommendations that examines the history and current roles of law enforcement in schools, the cost of this type of policing, and its negative consequences on schools and youth.
Million Dollar Hoods
Reports by Million Hoodies on the policing and jailing of LA residents with attention to race, gender, school policing, and the policing of the houseless.
JusticeLA
A report by JusticeLA, Center for Popular Democracy, and Law 4 Black Lives on policing and punishment budgets in LA county and recommendations for change.
