Resources

Tips for conflict resolution, crisis intervention, and keeping your and other communities safe without the police!

“Justicia de Sanación es un marco que identifica como podemos responder de manera holística e intervenir sobre el trauma y la violencia intergeneracional, y traer prácticas colectivas que puedan impactar y transformar las consecuencias de la opresión en nuestros cuerpos colectivos, corazones y mentes.” ~ Cara Page

“Developed by APTP’s First Responders Committee, this Guide describes our model for supporting families impacted by various forms of police terror and documenting abuses by police throughout the Bay Area. After an incident of state terror, we connect impacted families and community members with resources and legal referrals. We organize to respond to police murders and incidents of excessive force because we believe in the need to defend ourselves and our communities from violence.”

In this report, readers will find information about the need for greater access to policing data, an overview of the Vera Institute’s Arrest Trends tool as well as several initial findings gleaned from it, and future directions for this work.

A report with policy recommendations to the city of Austin, Texas on first response to mental health incidents. This resource includes the extensive report and findings by the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute (MMHPI) as well as their policy recommendations to improve mental health crisis intervention.

Ending mass incarceration and repairing its extensive collateral consequences must begin by focusing on the front end of the system: police work. Recognizing the roughly 18,000 police agencies around the country as gatekeepers of the system, this report explores the factors driving mass enforcement, particularly of low-level offenses; what police agencies could do instead with the right community investment, national and local leadership, and officer training, incentives, and support; and policies that could shift the policing paradigm away from the reflexive use of enforcement, which unnecessarily criminalizes people and leads directly to the jailhouse door.

In order to reduce our reliance on the criminal justice system, we need to invest in building stronger communities capable of dealing with their problems in non-coercive and non-punitive ways. Across the US local and national organizations are working to divest from policing and prisons and invest in communities and individuals. This provides an example list of platforms, organizations, and other resources that aim to build stronger communities.

“Healing Justice is a framework that identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on intergenerational trauma and violence, and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our collective bodies, hearts and minds.” -Cara Page

Emerging Issues in American Policing is a quarterly digest intended for police-practitioners and community members that presents innovations in the field of policing from the leading academic journals and research publications. The April 2019 issue includes “Mental Health Calls in a Rural Police Department,” “Racial Disparities in Nashville’s Traffic Stops,” “Crisis Intervention Team Training for Youth and Officer Awareness,” and more.