Limiting Use of Force: Promising Community-Centered Strategies
Policy Link
A report with policy recommendations on ways to limit the use of force by police, including the demilitarization of the police.
Resources
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.
Collateral Consequences: The Increase in Texas Student Arrests Following the Parkland and Santa Fe Tragedies
Texas Appleseed
This report highlights key legislation meant to move away from Zero Tolerance policies and their negative consequences, while also sharing information on the disparate impact of those policies on marginalized students.
The New Racially Restrictive Covenant: Race, Welfare, and the Policing of Black Women in Subsidized Housing
Priscilla A. Ocen
A report that examines the role of police officers and the race, gender, and class dynamics that make Black women vulnerable to surveillance and harassment in predominantly white communities, specifically publicly subsidized housing in traditionally white neighborhoods.
Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected
African American Policy Forum
This report analyzes data to examine the disparate treatment of Black girls in school, including pushout factors and overly punitive discipline policies.
Defending Justice Companion Website
Political Research Associates
A companion site to the Defending Justice toolkit that hosts a variety of reports, data, fact sheets, further organizing advice and tools, and more. Fact sheets include information on US and global discirmination issues, effects on multiple marginalized communities, and the economics of the US justice system.
Defending Justice: An Activist Resource Kit
Political Research Associates
A toolkit that provides backgrounds on and tools for working against negative consequences of conservative and right-wing criminal justice policies, practices, and narratives for a variety of marginalized communities.