Resources

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.

“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.”

This white paper focuses on the three years of media coverage of police violence and disability since the death of a young man with Down syndrome, named Ethan Saylor, in January 2013. It highlights the ways in which disability is mentioned or use when talking about police violence, and puts forth best practices for reporting on disability and police violence.

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.

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.

This report was developed to give individuals, communities, activists, advocacy organizations, law makers, and police departments the knowledge to co-produce public safety. The best practices recommended here are adaptable to every department, in every community across the nation; the ultimate goal is fair, safe, and effective policing that respects and protects human life and ensures safety for all.

Ending mass incarceration and repairing its extensive collateral consequences must begin by focusing on the front end of the system: police work. Recognizing the roughly 18,000 police agencies around the country as gatekeepers of the system, this report explores the factors driving mass enforcement, particularly of low-level offenses; what police agencies could do instead with the right community investment, national and local leadership, and officer training, incentives, and support; and policies that could shift the policing paradigm away from the reflexive use of enforcement, which unnecessarily criminalizes people and leads directly to the jailhouse door.

This is an analysis of the Use of force policy of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau, using Campaign Zero’s proposed analysis methodology.

In order to reduce our reliance on the criminal justice system, we need to invest in building stronger communities capable of dealing with their problems in non-coercive and non-punitive ways. Across the US local and national organizations are working to divest from policing and prisons and invest in communities and individuals. This provides an example list of platforms, organizations, and other resources that aim to build stronger communities.