Resources

“Developed by APTP’s First Responders Committee, this Guide describes our model for supporting families impacted by various forms of police terror and documenting abuses by police throughout the Bay Area. After an incident of state terror, we connect impacted families and community members with resources and legal referrals. We organize to respond to police murders and incidents of excessive force because we believe in the need to defend ourselves and our communities from violence.”

Después de casi una década de presencia de policías armados en 45 escuelas secundarias de la ciudad de Toronto, el Consejo Escolar del Distrito de Toronto (Toronto District School Board, TDSB), decidió retirarlos la semana pasada.

After almost a decade of armed police in 45 secondary schools in Toronto, the School Board decided to remove them last week.

#WeAreUofT picks up on heated debates around the Toronto Police Service and their School Resource Officer program. Established in 2008 – just one year after 15-year-old Jordan Manners was fatally shot in the chest at C.W. Jeffery’s Collegiate Institute in Toronto’s west end. This podcast includes input of teachers and community organizers arguing that the School Resource Program puts youth in danger and replicates patterns of anti-Black racism and violence against working class communities within the city more broadly.

CJSF’s Thena Robinson Mock speaks with Toronto community organizers and officials about the powerful community organizing that led to the end of Toronto’s School Resource Officer (SRO) Program in 2017.

This toolkit is intended to help activists, organizations, and communities identify and act on solutions to change policing for the better in their own communities.

This report was developed to give individuals, communities, activists, advocacy organizations, law makers, and police departments the knowledge to co-produce public safety. The best practices recommended here are adaptable to every department, in every community across the nation; the ultimate goal is fair, safe, and effective policing that respects and protects human life and ensures safety for all.

A report analyzing a federal survey with findings on the amount of people arrested and jailed each year and the frequency at which those individuals are cycled back into jail. Analysis shows that repeated arrests are related to race and poverty, as well as high rates of mental illness and substance use disorders. PPI found that people who are jailed have much higher rates of social, economic, and health problems that cannot and should not be addressed through incarceration. This report also includes policy solutions that can break this cycle of incarceration by addressing people’s needs in their communities rather than through the criminal justice system.

There is a pressing need for data-informed strategies to identify 911 calls that present a true public safety emergency and require an immediate police response, while responding to other calls in ways that do not tax limited policing resources and promote better outcomes for the people involved and the communities where they reside. This report summarizes the current state of 911 research, discusses the problems and potential of current 911 data collection practices, and recommends steps that law enforcement and emergency communications professionals can take to conserve resources and help ensure that the right response reaches the right caller at the right time.

Ending mass incarceration and repairing its extensive collateral consequences must begin by focusing on the front end of the system: police work. Recognizing the roughly 18,000 police agencies around the country as gatekeepers of the system, this report explores the factors driving mass enforcement, particularly of low-level offenses; what police agencies could do instead with the right community investment, national and local leadership, and officer training, incentives, and support; and policies that could shift the policing paradigm away from the reflexive use of enforcement, which unnecessarily criminalizes people and leads directly to the jailhouse door.