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.
WNYC – New York Public Radio
If a police officer in your community has a history of misconduct, can you find out about it? It depends where you live. WNYC spoke to attorneys and experts in all 50 states and reviewed relevant statutes and court cases to get a national picture of a local issue. We found that a police officer’s disciplinary history is effectively confidential in almost half of US states.
ACLU
A toolkit that discusses the issue of police abuse and misconduct while also highlighting different community goals around police accountability, organizing strategies to achieve these goals, and further resources.
Reuters Investigates
Reuters examined police union contracts across the country and found a pattern of protections afforded officers: Many contracts erase disciplinary records or allow police to forfeit sick leave for suspensions. Meantime, residents face hurdles in pursuing complaints.
Participatory Budgeting Project
A collection of information and further resources on the participatory budgeting process, how it works, and how to enact this system in your community.
International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training
The purpose of the National Decertification Index (NDI) is to serve as a national registry of certificate or license revocation actions relating to officer misconduct. The records contained in the NDI are provided by participating state government agencies and should be verified with the contributing authority. Inclusion in the database does not necessarily preclude any individual from appointment as an officer.
Urban Indian Health Institute
A report on data from 71 urban cities across the United States that begins to probe the high rates of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. Due to limited resources and poor data collection by cities, many of the cases identified in this report are likely an undercount of victims in urban areas.
The Center for Public Integrity
A report on the high rates of murder and sexual assault against Native American women across the United States, often at the hands of white and other non-Native American men outside the jurisdiction of tribal law enforcement. Many other Native American women have gone missing. This report also addresses the lack of investigations by the federal government and reasons why legal officials may not pursue investigations or specific charges.
Native American Journalists Association (NAJA)
A compilation of information and tips for reporters who wish to cover protests around Native American issues in the United States.
Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology
Piecing together the responses to over 100 Freedom of Information Act requests and dozens of interviews, researchers found that more than half of American adults were enrolled in a face recognition network searchable by law enforcement. Across the country, state and local police departments are building their own face recognition systems, many of them more advanced than the FBI’s. We know very little about these systems. We don’t know how they impact privacy and civil liberties. We don’t know how they address accuracy problems. And we don’t know how any of these systems—local, state, or federal—affect racial and ethnic minorities.
