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.
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.
COPS (Community Oriented Policing Services)
This report provides an overview of the existing landscape in local police oversight efforts, including a survey of the field, characteristics of oversight bodies, and issues with oversight models.
National Center for Transgender Equality
For each topic covered in the companion report, model policies are provided that can and should be adopted by police departments in collaboration with transgender leaders in their communities.
National Center for Transgender Equality
This report focuses primarily on policies specifically governing police interactions with transgender people, including non-discrimination statements, recognition of non-binary identities in applicable policies, use of respectful communication, recording information in department forms, search procedures, transportation, placement in temporary lock-up facilities, access to medication, removal of appearance related items, training, and bathroom access.
Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)
A toolkit that aims to assist police services in designing effective measures to curb police corruption, increasing their ability to fight crime, improving public security and strengthening the rule of law and public trust in the police.
PrYSM (Providence Youth Student Movement)
The key policy points of a city ordinance passed in 2017 on how police should function and how to hold them accountable.
Alliance for a Just Philadelphia
A policy platform for the upcoming Philadelphia elections that calls for accessibility, affordability, safety, health, dignity and respect for all work, and investment in every community.
ACLU Wisconsin
A report on changes being made in Milwaukee around policing policies on the use of stop-and-frisk, police misconduct, data accessibility, and police training.
ACLU of Northern California
Between 2001-2016, Fresno PD officers were involved in 146 officer-involved shootings. This high number of shootings, its disparate impact on low-income communities and communities of color, and the department’s policies and practices have significantly damaged police-community relationships. This report incorporates the voices of community stakeholders and recommends a hierarchy of reforms based on their financial feasibility.
