Topic: Use of Force

New Era of Public Safety: An Advocacy Toolkit for Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing

This toolkit aims to inspire individual and collective action to effect change in policing through grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, and...

New Era of Public Safety: A Guide to Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing

This report was developed to give individuals, communities, activists, advocacy organizations, law makers, and police departments the knowledge to carry...

A Multi-Level Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings at the County-Level in the United States, 2011-2014

An analysis of data collected from the US Police-Shooting Database (USPSD) that shows the extent of racial bias in police...

The Racial Confidence Gap in Police Performance

This report looks at differences in opinion among Americans in regards to topics of confidence in police, police performance, use...

Defending Justice Companion Website

A companion site to the Defending Justice toolkit that hosts a variety of reports, data, fact sheets, further organizing advice...

Defending Justice: An Activist Resource Kit

A toolkit that provides backgrounds on and tools for working against negative consequences of conservative and right-wing criminal justice policies,...

Citizen Science and Crowdsourced Data Collection, Not Government Statistics, Provide the Most Reliable Count of Citizen Fatalities by Police

UC Davis researchers argue that since the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in 2014, more is known about fatal...

What “Stop-and-Frisk” Really Means: Discrimination & Use of Force

A report that analyzes 2011 stop-and-frisk data from the NYPD to highlight the tactic's racial discrimination and correlation with use...

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