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.
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.
National Center for Transgender Equality
A report by the National Center for Transgender Equality, Best Practices Policy Project, and Red Umbrella Project that details transgender experiences in the sex trade, including interactions with the police and experience with incarceration.
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.
Community Service Society
A report from the NYC Community Service Society on gentrification and 311 and law enforcement calls.
Vera Institute of Justice
The Vera Institute of Justice’s Policing Program is partnering with stakeholders in Camden County, NJ and Tucson, AZ on an exploratory study that defines the landscape of 911 calls for service, how they are processed, what outcomes they produce, and what alternatives might exist. The goal of the project is to produce recommendations that will serve as a model for police departments and communications centers around the county.
Arnold Ventures – Alternatives to Arrest Initiative
A collection of reports from the Alternatives to Arrest initiative, including the role of research in policy change, creating a fairer pretrial system, targeting fines and fees, and disrupting the cycle of mental illness, substance use, and incarceration.
NYU School of Law Policing Project
The NYU Policing Project has set out on a two phase project around cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of policing. Phase I involved bringing together talented academics from a variety of fields and disciplines to discuss the challenges of using CBA to assess policing practices. In Phase II, teams of academics will work with policing agencies to do preliminary CBAs around specific policing practices. This is the report of the first phase.
Yale Law Journal
A collection of essays and reports that aims to lift up the experiences and insights of those who have experienced incarceration that are often missing from legal scholarship and criminal justice policy.
Alliance for a Just Philadelphia
A policy platform for the upcoming Philadelphia elections that calls for accessibility, affordability, safety, health, dignity and respect for all work, and investment in every community.
