Building Momentum from the Ground Up: A Toolkit for Promoting Justice in Policing
Policy Link
A toolkit co-created by Center for Popular Democracy and Policy Link to promote justice in policing from the ground up.
Resources
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.
Collateral Consequences: The Increase in Texas Student Arrests Following the Parkland and Santa Fe Tragedies
Texas Appleseed
This report highlights key legislation meant to move away from Zero Tolerance policies and their negative consequences, while also sharing information on the disparate impact of those policies on marginalized students.
Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected
African American Policy Forum
This report analyzes data to examine the disparate treatment of Black girls in school, including pushout factors and overly punitive discipline policies.
Defending Justice Companion Website
Political Research Associates
A companion site to the Defending Justice toolkit that hosts a variety of reports, data, fact sheets, further organizing advice and tools, and more. Fact sheets include information on US and global discirmination issues, effects on multiple marginalized communities, and the economics of the US justice system.
Defending Justice: An Activist Resource Kit
Political Research Associates
A toolkit that provides backgrounds on and tools for working against negative consequences of conservative and right-wing criminal justice policies, practices, and narratives for a variety of marginalized communities.
Reconsidering Hate: Politics and Policy at the Intersection
Political Research Associates
A report that analyzes hate crime law and policy effectiveness and responses to violence against marginalized communities. It talks about the role of police in responding to or participating in hate crimes and pages 26-27 offer other avenues for enforcing hate crime legislation beyond calling the police.
Intervention & De-Escalation Resources
Various Authors
A site with an extensive collection of links to resources on bystander intervention, deescalation, and safety in instances of racism, sexual violence, and other dangerous situations. Resources are both US and UK specific and some detail alternatives to calling/involving police. Resources are in written, visual, and audio-visual format.
Breaking the Cycle of Low-Level Crime: Public Safety Innovations During an Era of Change
Californians for Safety & Justice
Report with policy that highlights national and California policies that emphasize collaboration between communities and government, that addresses drivers of crime, and policies that can help to work towards alternatives to arrest and incarceration.
Framework for a Data-Driven Crime Prevention Prosecutor’s Office
National Network for Safe Communities
A white paper that focuses mainly on the role of prosecutors to act as partners with other criminal justice agencies and also as independent, effectively strategic actors to reduce crime, enhance criminal justice system legitimacy, strengthen communities, and reduce the unintended consequences of existing justice practices.