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.
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.
Dignity & Power NOW
“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
Anti Police-Terror Project
“Developed by APTP’s First Responders Committee, this Guide describes our model for supporting families impacted by various forms of police terror and documenting abuses by police throughout the Bay Area. After an incident of state terror, we connect impacted families and community members with resources and legal referrals. We organize to respond to police murders and incidents of excessive force because we believe in the need to defend ourselves and our communities from violence.”
Vera Institute of Justice
In this report, readers will find information about the need for greater access to policing data, an overview of the Vera Institute’s Arrest Trends tool as well as several initial findings gleaned from it, and future directions for this work.
The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute of Texas
A report with policy recommendations to the city of Austin, Texas on first response to mental health incidents. This resource includes the extensive report and findings by the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute (MMHPI) as well as their policy recommendations to improve mental health crisis intervention.
Radio Canada Internacional
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
#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.
Communities for Just Schools Fund
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.
