Resources

Since 2001, when Metro Nashville Police officers make a traffic stop they must fill out a form with information about location, date, gender, race, ethnicity, age, and reason for making a stop. Members of Gideon’s Army reviewed the information from the forms from 2011-2015 and created a detailed report that explains the findings.

This report sought to examine the extent of disparate school disciplinary practices for female students nationwide, with a focus on Black and Latina girls in comparison to their white female counterparts. Data presented in this report is focused explicitly on girls without disabilities and with disabilities served under the Individuals with Educational Disabilities Act (IDEA) in K-12 public schools.

BreakOUT! created this 2014 report in an effort to educate other young people, educate decision-makers in New Orleans, maintain pressure on the city to implement policing reforms, measure the effectiveness of ongoing policing reforms, and document stories and strategies of BreakOUT! organizers. This report also shows how criminalization encompasses more than just policing and highlights the work of BreakOUT! to “starve” the system by preventing arrests and incarceration.

This is a searchable database gathering past and current incidents of police violence against women of color, including both trans and non-trans women of color.

Intended for use by individuals, classrooms, book clubs, and organizations, the Invisible No More Study and Discussion Guide breaks down key concepts and offers reflection questions, exercises, and self-care tips designed to make Invisible No More more accessible to students, activists, and readers of all kinds!

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.

A collection of data as the result of multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests sent by Lucy Parsons Labs over the past year showing the execution of search warrants issued throughout Chicago. Working alongside FOIA expert and data scientist Matt Chapman, Lucy Parsons Labs is also providing a data visualization tool, allowing the public to analyze the data. It can be viewed online and includes census-tract level of detail.

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.