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.
Arnold Ventures – Alternatives to Arrest Initiative
A collection of reports from the Alternatives to Arrest initiative, including the role of research in policy change, creating a fairer pretrial system, targeting fines and fees, and disrupting the cycle of mental illness, substance use, and incarceration.
Open Society Foundations
A transcript of a discussion about Angela J. Davis’ book of the same name that includes data and touches on all of the ways that black men and boys are policed at every step of the process in the criminal justice system, arrest through sentencing.
Adele N. Norris
A report that looks at the parallels between New Zealand and United States incarceration trends and how the unbalanced power relations between the dominant ethnic majority in the United States, such as African Americans, and Native people “result in a marginalisation, silencing, and exploitation of issues unique to Indigenous peoples.”
Harvard Law Review
A report with commentary by Barack Obama that gives an overview of the criminal justice landscape and need for reform, how the President can lead this reform on a Federal level, and how the President can influence change on the state and local level.
Local Progress
A toolkit that addresses the various harmful policies of criminal justice and law enforcement to aid the work of local elected officials—in close partnership with impacted community members, advocates, and organizers—to fight back in the current era of heightened attack on communities.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The Misdemeanor Justice Project (MJP) Data Dashboard provides a snapshot of criminal summonses issued in New York City between 2003 and 2016. The dashboard allows visitors to visually track trends in criminal summonses with data provided by the Office of Court Administration.
Movement for Black Lives
Policy recommendations advancing an invest / divest model of investment in Black communities and divestment from exploitative forces.
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.
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.
