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.
Rose City Copwatch
This resource is a compilation of case-studies on alternatives to cops. The booklet focuses on projects that don’t collaborate with the state or court system in any way. A long bibliography for further reading is also included.
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) DC
A collection of questions and resources to assist individuals in addressing situations without immediate reliance on police.
TRIP! Project
Your neighbor is setting off fireworks at 3am, or there’s intimate partner violence happening outside your window, or you see someone hit their child in public…What do you do? What do you do instead of calling the police? How do you keep yourself safe without seeking protection from a system that is predicated upon the surveillance and extermination of others? This is an in-progress list of resources on alternatives to policing, which range from the theoretical to the practical.
CARE PDX
A toolkit with a list of alternatives to calling the police, which can be a traumatic experience at best and unnecessarily put lives in danger—or worse. Important note: While the resources below offer alternative solutions to calling the police, there is no guarantee that these organizations will not involve law enforcement as they deem necessary.
Care Not Cops
A report that surveyed 12 local community organizations in Portland, Oregon about the harms of policing and their visions for building real community care and resources.
Critical Resistance
The Oakland Power Projects (OPP) are an initiative to engage Oakland residents in building community power and wellbeing without relying on cops. CR Oakland has been fighting against the violence of policing for more than 10 years, and we hope you’ll join us in this next phase.
The Audre Lorde Project
A toolkit from the Safe Outside the System (SOS) program with a collection of strategies to build safety in party spaces without relying on the police or state systems. The Safe Party Toolkit can support you, partygoers, and throwers in: creating a space in which partygoers self determination and safety are prioritized, preventing and intervening in violence before it escalates, making a community atmosphere where violence isn’t acceptable, encouraging others to intervene/prevent violence from happening, and supporting survivors of violence.
University of Texas at Austin School of Law – Human Rights Clinic
In September 2018, the City of Austin’s Auditor released a report titled “APD’s Response to Mental Health-Related Incidents,” which found that of the 15 largest U.S. cities, Austin had the highest per capita rate of people killed by police responding to mental health calls. This human rights report was written in response to the Auditor’s report.
National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP)
This guide will give survivors of this violence and community members tools – like safety tips, Know Your Rights information and Community Action strategies – to respond to incidents of violence, to the culture of anti-LGBTQ and HIV-affected violence and to support LGBTQ and HIV-affected survivors and communities.
