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).
Learning for Justice
Teachers have a unique window into the lives of students and, collectively, have been a powerful force of resistance in many vulnerable parts of the country. This toolkit offers a suggestion for how teachers can advocate for family members who have been detained as well as other useful resources that can help prepare and inform the entire school community.
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.
Youth Educating Police (YEP)
Youth Educating Police strives to be a valued source in the community for incitng change and building stronger bonds between not only youth but also our adult counterparts. This is a list of policy recommendations at the local Portland level, the Oregon state level, and the national level.
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.
Dignity & Power NOW
“Healing Justice is a framework that identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on intergenerational trauma and violence, and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our collective bodies, hearts and minds.” -Cara Page
Dream Defenders
The Freedom Papers is a vision for a future that is able to serve the everyday needs of its people. The toolkit is designed to promote community-based and online conversations about the future the Freedom Papers is fighting for, and the big corporations who are standing in the way of this vision. It also aims to educate about private prisons and lobbying impacts on the political system and experiences of the community, as well as provide a framework for pressuring politicians.
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.
