Turning Back the Tide: Promising Efforts to Demilitarize Police Departments
Policy Link
A report with policy recommendations surrounding demilitarizing police departments and community-centered training as a framework for reform.
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.
Limiting Use of Force: Promising Community-Centered Strategies
Policy Link
A report with policy recommendations on ways to limit the use of force by police, including the demilitarization of the police.
Community-Centered Policing: A Force for Change
Policy Link
The New Racially Restrictive Covenant: Race, Welfare, and the Policing of Black Women in Subsidized Housing
Priscilla A. Ocen
A report that examines the role of police officers and the race, gender, and class dynamics that make Black women vulnerable to surveillance and harassment in predominantly white communities, specifically publicly subsidized housing in traditionally white neighborhoods.
Stonewalled: Police Abuse and Misconduct Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in the US
Amnesty International USA
This report documents the police abuse and misconduct against LGBTQ people in the US, including issues of profiling, sexual/physical/verbal abuse, and inappropriate responses to hate crimes and domestic violence.
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kay Whitlock
A summary and continuing discussion of Andrea Ritchie’s book by the same name, this focuses on the unique criminalization of LGBTQ individuals and communities in the US. Topics include myths of LGBTQ people as predators or murderers, conditions for imprisoned LGBTQ people, police interactions, and more.
New Era of Public Safety: An Advocacy Toolkit for Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
This toolkit aims to inspire individual and collective action to effect change in policing through grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, and civic engagement.
New Era of Public Safety: A Guide to Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
This report was developed to give individuals, communities, activists, advocacy organizations, law makers, and police departments the knowledge to carry out public safety reforms and needs. This report is a companion to the “New Era of Public Safety” toolkit.
A Multi-Level Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings at the County-Level in the United States, 2011-2014
UC Davis (Cody T. Ross)
An analysis of data collected from the US Police-Shooting Database (USPSD) that shows the extent of racial bias in police shootings of Americans.