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.
The Marshall Project
A report on the impact of criminal justice reform in California, and specifically in San Joaquin County, that has led to decreased crime rates and decreased jail populations.
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.
Critical Resistance
A chart that breaks down the difference between reformist reforms which continue or expand the reach of policing, and abolitionist steps that work to chip away and reduce its overall impact.
The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing
A report with recommendations for reforming policing, each with action items organized around six main topic areas or “pillars:” Building Trust and Legitimacy, Policy and Oversight, Technology and Social Media, Community Policing and Crime Reduction, Officer Training and Education, and Officer Safety and Wellness.
Police Data Initiative
The Police Data Initiative (PDI) represents the great work and leadership of more than 130 law enforcement agencies who have released more than 200 datasets to date, and originated as a result of several recommendations in the Task Force on 21st Century Policing that focused on technology and transparency.
Harvard Law Review
A report with commentary by Barack Obama that gives an overview of the criminal justice landscape and need for reform, how the President can lead this reform on a Federal level, and how the President can influence change on the state and local level.
El Grito/Witness
WITNESS and El Grito de Sunset Park partnered to collect, analyze and preserve over a decade of eyewitness videos of police abuse from Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Local Progress
A toolkit that addresses the various harmful policies of criminal justice and law enforcement to aid the work of local elected officials—in close partnership with impacted community members, advocates, and organizers—to fight back in the current era of heightened attack on communities.
Citizen’s Police Data Project
A report on the history and efforts by the Invisible Institute to gain access to internal police files, an important chapter in the struggle for civil rights in Chicago.
