Picture from the Ferguson Unrest 2014

​More Police Does Not Make Us Safer

This is our special resource list called “More Police Does Not Make Us Safer” it look specifically about the fallacy of adding more police and more security in our communities does not have the desired outcome for black and brown people. In fact the articles and studies they reference show that adding more police into our communities is extremely detrimental to those communities. Both resource lists will grow and change and more will be added to them in the coming years. Please keep checking back to see what has been added.

12 THINGS TO DO INSTEAD OF CALLING THE COPS:
WHAT TO DO INSTEAD OF CALLING THE POLICE
Calling the Police on Black People Can Put Them in Danger
Ex-Cop Reveals How NYPD Forced Officers to Arrest Black & Latino Men
What the Prison-Abolition Movement Wants by  Kim Kelly
Policing is a Dirty Job, But Nobody’s Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free
Against the Romance of community policing
Policing in the United States 1845-Present
The Most Dangerous Thing Out There is the Police
An alternative to police: Mental health team responds to emergencies in Oregon
​The Mutual Aid Toolbox
If An Agent Knocks (the booklet)
WITHOUT THE COPS: NATIONAL NIGHT OUT FOR SAFETY AND LIBERATION
12 THINGS TO DO INSTEAD OF CALLING THE COPS


MORE To be Posted ​EDITING -sorry for the mess

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