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Topic: Community Engagement

Framework for Evaluating Reformist Reforms vs. Abolitionist Steps to End the Family Policing System

The questions in this document provide a guide to analyze whether proposed reforms to family policing further entrench the family...

Pomona Police Department’s Crusade Against Black and Latinx Youth

In 2021, Gente Organizada released a first-of-its-kind report on racial profiling practices in local law enforcement in the City of...

Stop and Frisk: Revisit or Resist

Gun violence in Philadelphia has reached a boiling point. Politicians, police, and community members are searching for ways to curb...

Reformist Reforms vs. Abolitionist Steps to End Imprisonment

A chart that breaks down the difference between reformist reforms which continue or expand the reach of policing, and abolitionist...

Ticketing and Turnout: The Participatory Consequences of Low-Level Police Contact

The American criminal legal system is an important site of political socialization: scholars have shown that criminal legal contact reduces...

Effect of Abandoned Housing Interventions on Gun Violence, Perceptions of Safety, and Substance Use in Black Neighborhoods: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (Philadelphia)

Question: Do structural interventions to abandoned houses lead to improvements in health and safety in low-income, Black neighborhoods? Findings: In...

Abolition and the State: A Discussion Tool

As movements to defund and divest from policing and invest in community safety expand in the wake of the 2020...

Reimagining Community Safety in California: From Deadly and Expensive Sheriffs to Equity and Care-Centered Wellbeing

Today, Catalyst California’s (formerly Advancement Project California) new Reimagine Justice & Safety program released Reimagining Community Safety in California: From...

Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States

Political scientist Hakeem Jefferson (Stanford University) facilitated a discussion about race, policing, and the state of American democracy with fellow...