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.
Detention Watch Network
A collection of information, tools, and resources on how to challenge the financial support that fuels discrimination against, detainment and deportation of immigrants. Stopping the flow of money is critical to stopping the anti-immigrant agenda. Now is the time to tell Congress to take the next step and cut funding to ICE and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).
Movement for Black Lives
This toolkit explores the long history of struggles for reparations for Black people, lays out key facts, concepts, and international human rights law underlying reparations demands, and provides case studies of struggles for reparations at the institutional, local, state, and international levels. Our goal in creating this toolkit is to provide a foundational definition of what reparations is, to advance our argument that reparations for Black people in the United States is essential, to inform public discussion about reparations, and to support organizers seeking reparations at the local, national, and international level in order to advance our collective struggles for Black liberation.
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This is an analysis of the Use of force policy of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau, using Campaign Zero’s proposed analysis methodology.
The Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College
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.
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This is a preliminary documentation of police abuse and interventions during the #RickyRenuncia protests in Puerto Rico.
Stephen Rushin (University of Alabama School of Law)
A report that demonstrates that police departments’ internal disciplinary procedures, often established through the collective bargaining process, can serve as barriers to officer accountability.
Catherine L. Fisk & L. Song Richardson (University of California, Irvine School of Law)
For all the public controversy over police unions, there is relatively little legal scholarship on them. Neither the legal nor the social science literature on policing and police reform has explored the opportunities and constraints that labor law offers in thinking about organizational change. The scholarly deficit has substantial public policy consequences, as groups ranging from Black Lives Matter to the U.S. Department of Justice are proposing legal changes that will require the cooperation of police labor organizations to implement. This Article fills that gap.
Campaign Zero
The Campaign Zero team reviewed police union contracts of 81 of America’s 100 largest cities and police bill of rights in all 15 states with such legislation to identify the ways in which these policies make it more difficult to hold police accountable. This resource includes a report and an interactive chart to learn more about contract stipulations in each state.
Katherine J. Bies (Stanford Law School)
In recent years, videos capturing the fatal shootings of unarmed men of color by police officers have swept media outlets and public discourse. Facilitated by cellphone video and social media and spurred by a new generation of Black Lives Matter activists, public awareness of excessive force incidents has gained new momentum and shined a light on broader concerns about racial disparities within our criminal justice system. This report highlights states’ efforts to provide access to officer disciplinary records (through “sunshine legislation”) and the obstacles that police unions pose when trying to pass and enforce these laws.
