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.
Lakota People’s Law Project
In response to the discussion surrounding police violence against marginalized communities in the United States, Lakota People’s Law Project (LPLP) pens the Native Lives Matter report to detail the statistical frequency at which Native Americans are brutalized or killed by the police.
Pew Research Center
In recent decades, women have accounted for a growing share of America’s police officers, but this growth has been relatively slow and women remain underrepresented in the field. They also sometimes differ sharply from male officers in their views of policing and their experiences, according to a new Pew Research Center survey conducted by the National Police Research Platform.
Urban Institute Next 50
For most of its history, the United States excluded people of color from its main pathways of opportunity and upward mobility, causing deep inequities across many aspects of life. But we can imagine a more equitable future in which structural racism—the policies, programs, and institutional practices that generated inequitable outcomes—and its consequences are remedied. Pages 19-24 give recommendations around policing policy to address this issue of structural racism.
Invisible Institute
Obtained from thousands of state agencies, prosecutors, police departments and sheriffs, the records detail at least 200,000 incidents of alleged misconduct, much of it previously unreported. The records obtained include more than 110,000 internal affairs investigations by hundreds of individual departments and more than 30,000 officers who were decertified by 44 state oversight agencies.
Live Free USA (PICO California)
A report that details biased police practices and their effects on communities. It also provides a set of best practices implemented across the country that can be used to challenge counties and local municipalities into adopting reforms.
Joscha Legewie (Harvard University), Jeffrey Fagan (Columbia Law School)
This report examines the first causal evidence of the impact of aggressive policing on minority youths’ educational performance in NYC. Using data collected from 250,000 adolescents ages nine to 15, results support the idea that exposure to increased police presence significantly reduced test scores for African American boys.
Cato Institute
A report that looks at differences in attitudes toward police by race and ethnicity in the United States. It also looks at potential influences on these attitudes, such as perceived bias, anxiety about crime, perceived competence of police, cases of police misconduct, and more. The report concludes with potential policies for policing reform.
Vera Institute of Justice
A report that details the US justice system’s historical and current bias against Black Americans, including police practices.
ACLU
A report with policy recommendations that examines the history and current roles of law enforcement in schools, the cost of this type of policing, and its negative consequences on schools and youth.
