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 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.
ACLU
A report on how the lack of school mental health staff and increase in school police is harming students.
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.
NYU School of Law Policing Project
Policing Project of NYU Director Barry Friedman speaks with MuckRock regarding the move by safety tech company Axon to shift its production focus from its Taser stun guns to providing increased artificial intelligence services for police departments around the country.
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.
Open Society Foundations
A transcript of a discussion about Angela J. Davis’ book of the same name that includes data and touches on all of the ways that black men and boys are policed at every step of the process in the criminal justice system, arrest through sentencing.
