Resources

This report calls for an expansion of messaging and responses to more explicitly center the experiences of Black women, girls, trans and gender nonconforming people. It also calls on contemporary anti-violence movements to expand the current focus on sexual violence by politicians, in the entertainment industry and in the workplace to include settings in which Black women, girls, trans and gender nonconforming people’s experiences of sexual violence remain largely shrouded in silence, including schools, foster care systems, police interactions, and prisons.

. Under the banner “Free the City, Heal the City,” Chicago’s cross-sectoral and intergenerational organizing community is calling on the new city leadership to adopt a whole new politic – one that conclusively rejects privatization of public goods, disinvestment from low-income communities and communities of color, and reliance on policing and criminalization as the primary response to social problems and substitute for social services and social goods. There is much we can learn from Chicago’s journey to this moment and the visions for the city that are emerging during this transition.

A policy brief written by Andrea J. Ritchie and Monique W. Morris, Ed.D., that highlights the need to provide sanctuary and build toward freedom by challenging and eliminating immigration enforcement and policing practices that cause harm to Black women, as well as create conditions that will ensure safety from interpersonal and intra-communal violence for Black women, girls, gender nonconforming people and fem(me)s.

According to the FBI’s hate crime statistics, almost 20 percent of all hate crime victims in 2015 were targeted because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender. This report documents the findings of the Forum on Gender, Sexuality, and 21st Century Policing and puts for policy recommendations for improving safety and support for the LGBTQ+ community.

In listening to families impacted by police violence and engaging in exhaustive literature, study, legal research and lived experience of community-appointed Police Commissioners, APTP has created this Best Practices Guide to support local organizers interested in supporting change to bring an end to the systemic police violence, abuse and murder against Black, Brown, Indigenous, Queer and marginalized people. Findings indicate that best practice requires the establishment of an all-civilian oversight structure with discipline power that includes both a Civilian Complaints Office and a Police Commission.

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.

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.

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.