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.
Borealis Philanthropy – Communities Transforming Policing Fund
From the launch of the COVID-19 Learning Community series, this discussion focuses on contact tracings and the intersections of COVID-19 with policing and criminalization.
Teens Resist
A living compilation of resources and data around police funding, legislators that receive money from police PACs, mutual aid and places to donate, legal aid, and more.
Black Philly Radical Collective
During this time of rebellion against police terrorism and state violence, the Black Philly Radical Collective (a group of 12 organizations including Black Lives Matter Philly and Philly for Real Justice) has listed immediately actionable demands for the City of Philadelphia.
Chicago Torture Justice Center
This worksheet focuses in on the Coronavirus crisis in relation to the longstanding public health crisis of racialized policing, community divestment, and structural violence. It is an invitation to share ideas around these issues, and to consider what we can heal, dismantle, and create together in response.
Movement for Black Lives
The killing of Black people at the hands of the police is taking place against the backdrop of a pandemic that is taking Black lives at an alarming rate. Our communities continue to be disinvested in and our people continue to be vulnerable to every harm in our society. This is why we call to defund police departments across the country and demand an investment of those resources into the needs of our communities.
We know what is happening in Minneapolis is a product of what has happened to Black people for decades. We are paying attention and we are ready to rise.
Join us for M4BL’s National Call to Action Call, hear from Organizers in Minneapolis and across the country. We will share our demands and ways for folks to take action!
Equity and Transformation (EAT) Chicago
Equity and Transformation along with the support from other community groups and individuals have designed this “Life Kit” as a way to offer what we can to help anyone that maybe struggling right now as well as providing them with useful information and resources in order to stay healthy. We must rely on each other to take care of US! This pamphlet includes the necessary information to help you get through COVID-19.
Policing the Pandemic (Canada)
This document was first created in May 2020 and is an ongoing work in progress! We hope this can be a living and collaborative document. We recognize that there are many existing resources and google docs before this one on alternatives to calling the police. Our goal for this document was to compile some of these resources and place them in the context of anti-Asian racism, in Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic—and what we hope can be a broader dialogue around interracial solidarity.
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
A discussion with Professor Simone Browne, an educator and author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness and We Like to Watch: Race and Sociology of Surveillance; and Pete White, Executive Director – Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN).
NYU School of Law Policing Project
Two sets of guidance addressing law enforcement’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These documents follow early reports from New York and other cities that raised concerns of uneven, sometimes discriminatory enforcement, and confusion about how to reach isolated and vulnerable groups. Vetted with community organizers, academic experts, and law enforcement officials, this COVID-19 guidance compiles best practices for state, municipal, and policing leaders as they navigate this ongoing public health emergency.
