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.
NAACP
A toolkit designed to assist in the mobilization of state conferences and local units by providing information useful for a long-term strategy of police reform. After reading this toolkit, members should be empowered to advocate for change in their local communities.
Vera Institute of Justice
A collection of resources, including documents such as policies for serving immigrant communities, curricula for training law enforcement and community members, and podcasts housed on the COPS website. The goal is that the resources will prove useful tools for police departments around the country looking to build relationships with their local immigrant communities.
Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)
A toolkit that aims to assist police services in designing effective measures to curb police corruption, increasing their ability to fight crime, improving public security and strengthening the rule of law and public trust in the police.
National Center for Transgender Equality
A guide to understanding the external factors affecting the disproportionate rate of incarceration of LGBTQ people. This guide includes policies and ways advocates can work to reduce incarceration and keep LGBTQ people out of jails and prisons.
DC Trans Coalition
A training/toolkit from the DC Trans Coalition – We organize in our local communities to spread awareness, democratize and decentralize access to information, and create the political space and cultural visibility necessary to ensure that our experiences are treated with respect and dignity. We also work to educate trans communities on the law so that we are prepared to defend our rights and live without fear. Finally, we work toward changing laws, policies and services to improve our lives and realize gender self-determination for all of DC’s trans communities.
National Center for Transgender Equality
A toolkit for trans individuals participating in direct actions and interacting with police.
Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective
During the spring of 2014 the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (BATJC) began using the term “pod” to refer to a specific type of relationship within transformative justice (TJ) work. “Pod” is a term to describe the kind of relationship between people who would turn to each other for support around violent, harmful and abusive experiences, whether as survivors, bystanders or people who have harmed. These would be the people in our lives that we would call on to support us with things such as our immediate and on-going safety, accountability and transformation of behaviors, or individual and collective healing and resiliency.
National Down Syndrome Society
A toolkit for law enforcement interaction with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD).
NYU School of Law Policing Project
A guide that consists of a series of DO’s and DON’Ts for both police officers and those filming them. It goes beyond outlining legal rights, and instead provides practical recommendations for members of the public on how to approach filming the police and for officers on how to respond to photographers.
