Criminal Justice Reform in the States: Spotlight on Legislatures
The Appeal
An interactive map to explore legislation on criminal justice reform in each state, including policing.
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.
Engaging Police in Immigrant Communities
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.
Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet (Transformative Justice)
Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective
During the spring of 2014 the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (BATJC) began using the term “pod” to refer to a specific type of relationship within transformative justice (TJ) work. “Pod” is a term to describe the kind of relationship between people who would turn to each other for support around violent, harmful and abusive experiences, whether as survivors, bystanders or people who have harmed. These would be the people in our lives that we would call on to support us with things such as our immediate and on-going safety, accountability and transformation of behaviors, or individual and collective healing and resiliency.
Providence Community Safety Act: 12 Key Points (RI)
PrYSM (Providence Youth Student Movement)
The key policy points of a city ordinance passed in 2017 on how police should function and how to hold them accountable.
The People’s Platform for a Just Philadelphia
Alliance for a Just Philadelphia
A policy platform for the upcoming Philadelphia elections that calls for accessibility, affordability, safety, health, dignity and respect for all work, and investment in every community.
Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation and Race
Hannah L. Walker, PhD
A thesis dissertation that uses survey and interview data to examine the effects of criminal justice involvement on political mobilization and demobilization, distrust in the criminal justice system, and immigration.
“The Most Dangerous Thing Out Here is the Police” – Trans Voices on Police Abuse and Profiling in Atlanta
Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative
A report that details Atlanta police treatment of trans people and calls to action to address this dangerous treatment.
Research Across the Walls: A Guide to Participatory Research Projects & Partnerships to Free Criminalized Survivors
Survived & Punished
A toolkit/guide that aims to equip more people with tools, resources, ideas, and models to pursue urgently needed community-based research projects. The goal is to inspire more organizers, advocates, attorneys, scholars, and survivors — especially those who are currently and formerly incarcerated — to lead research projects that will contribute to a growing body of data and information to fight for the freedom and well-being of criminalized survivors, and of all people.
“The Police Act Like We Are Nothing” – A New Coalition of People in the Sex Trades wants New York to Become the First State to Fully Decriminalize Their Work
The Appeal
A report on the new coalition of people in sex trades in New York City (Decrim NY) working towards decriminalization that shares information on the impact of policing and the criminal justice system.