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.
Pew Research Center
In recent decades, women have accounted for a growing share of America’s police officers, but this growth has been relatively slow and women remain underrepresented in the field. They also sometimes differ sharply from male officers in their views of policing and their experiences, according to a new Pew Research Center survey conducted by the National Police Research Platform.
Vera Institute of Justice
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.
Unite Oregon
This report makes recommendations to the Workgroup on the Prevention of Profiling by Law Enforcement (WPPLE) in four core areas of police reform: Data Collection, Analysis and Reporting; Accountability Mechanisms, Training, and Procedural Justice.
Live Free USA (PICO California)
A report that details biased police practices and their effects on communities. It also provides a set of best practices implemented across the country that can be used to challenge counties and local municipalities into adopting reforms.
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.
The Sentencing Project
Pages two through six of this report detail the discriminatory patterns found within policing in the United States; the conclusion of this report provides some policy recommendations for addressing and potentially reducing this bias within policing.
Vera Institute of Justice
A collection of resources, including documents such as policies for serving immigrant communities, curricula for training law enforcement and community members, and podcasts housed on the COPS website. The goal is that the resources will prove useful tools for police departments around the country looking to build relationships with their local immigrant communities.
National Down Syndrome Society
A toolkit for law enforcement interaction with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD).
State of Washington
Legislation that makes it “easier” to prosecute police over misusing deadly force by removing the need to prove malice. Summary of changes from the Seattle Met:
1) It makes the “good faith” standard objective rather than subjective – another officer in a similar situation also needs to have believed use of deadly force was necessary
2) It still requires police to undergo de-escalation training every year but doesn’t list it as a condition of maintaining certification
3) It changes the requirement to render first aid to the “earliest safe opportunity,” to cover cases in which it’s not safe for the cop to apply first aid immediately
4) It requires that the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission also seek input from police unions and minority law enforcement associations on adopting the rules
