RESOURCES
Websites & Journalism
“Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.”
“The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. We achieve this through award-winning journalism, partnerships with other news outlets and public forums. In all of our work we strive to educate and enlarge the audience of people who care about the state of criminal justice.”
“We believe in a world where there are zero police murders because there are zero police, not because police are better trained or better regulated—indeed, history has shown that ending police violence through more training or regulations is impossible.”
Research & Studies
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Police-Mental Health Collaboration (PMHC) Toolkit.
“A PMHC is a law enforcement-based program that enables officers to respond appropriately and safely to people with mental illnesses.”
The Brookings Institute
“Innovative solutions to address the mental health crisis: Shifting away from police as first responders”
Southern Medical Journal
Costs and Savings Associated with Implementation of a Police Crisis Intervention Team
Databases
Fatal Force
“The Washington Post’s database contains records of every fatal shooting in the United States by a police officer in the line of duty since Jan. 1, 2015.”
How much does your community spend on police?
“Using data from the New Hampshire Public Finance Consortium, a volunteer group of municipal finance officials, NHPR compiled the amount each city and town in New Hampshire spent on police, as well as three other government functions: fire, highways and streets, and health, in fiscal year 2019.”
See What Your Local Agency Received from the Department of Defense
“What military equipment has your local police, sheriff or game warden received from the Pentagon? Click the dropdown to select your state and start sifting through the newly released data from the U.S. Department of Defense’s 1033 program.“
