Research and Advocacy
We provide technical assistance to organizations and movements on policy and organizing strategies.
Reports we have contributed to:
Nearly 1,800,000 Per Year Punitive Interactions Between NYPD and New Yorkers, Police Reform Organizing Project, 2016
Addressing Law Enforcement Violence as a Public Health Issue, American Public Health Association, 2018
“Get on the Ground”: Policing, Poverty & Racial Inequality in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Human Rights Watch, 2019
Vision for Justice 2020 and Beyond, Leadership Conference for Civil Rights, 2020
A New Vision for Public Safety, Tiffany Caban, 2021
For Such a Time as This: Reimagining Policing and Public Safety in America, People for the American Way, 2022
Care Not Cops: Movements Against School Policing and Alternatives for Student Safety and Success, Cancel The Contract, 2022.
Organizations we have worked with:
Advancement Project
Borealis Philanthropy
Building Healthy Communities, East Salinas
California Endowment
Cancel the Contract, Antelope Valley
Center for Popular Democracy
Close the Workhouse Campaign, St. Louis
Communities Against Police Corruption and Repression
Critical Resistance
Democratic Socialists of America
Detroit Justice Center
Families for Safe Streets, NYC
Ferguson Collaborative
GANGS Coalition, NYC
Human Rights Watch
Jacksonville Progressive Coalition
Legal Aid Society
Leadership Conference for Civil Rights
Netpol, UK
NFL Players Coalition
Northern Police Monitoring Project, Manchester, UK
Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP)
VOCAL-NY
Opinion pieces & essays
“A New Deal for Public Safety.” Gotham Gazette. July 13, 2022.
“Why Arming Teachers and Militarizing Schools are ‘Terrible’ Ideas” The Crime Report. May 27, 2022.
“Defund the Police, el movimiento que pide menos policía y más gasto social en EE UU.” El Pais. June 25, 2021.
“Walter Wallace Jr.’s tragic death a reminder police should not lead mental health response.” The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 27, 2020.
“5 Myths About Policing” The Washington Post. June 25, 2020.
“The Answer to Police Violence is not 'Reform'. It's Defunding. Here's why.” The Guardian. May 31, 2020.
“The NYPD Needs to Change a Lot More Than Its Commissioner.” The Nation. November 7, 2019.
“What Kamala Harris’s Take on Policing Gets Wrong.” The Appeal. 2019.
“The Criminalization of Youth.” Jacobin. August 22, 2018.
"The New ‘Superpredator’ Myth." New York Times. March 23, 2018.
"Police not adequately trained on mental health: Column." USA Today. November 18, 2016
"Eleanor Bumpurs, Deborah Danner, and Finally Fixing Our Emergency Response." Gotham Gazette. October 20, 2016.
"Jail Abuse, Lawsuit Show Need to ‘Raise the Age’." Gotham Gazette. September 20, 2016.
"Giuliani’s Convention Speech Got Everything Wrong About Policing." The Nation. July 19, 2016.
