How Philadelphia Disrupted the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Research on a police diversion program implemented in 2014 shows a striking 91% reduction in in-school arrests over less than 10 years.
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Police Diversion Programs Work. Here鈥檚 Why
Treatment programs rather than incarceration are far more effective for drug-related offenses.
We Keep Us Safe: Imagining a Police-Free World
Communities with infrastructure to support the development of whole, healthy people won鈥檛 need police.
Reimagining Safety and Liberation Without Police
We can work for safety and liberation by investing in community-based alternatives to policing, like mental health programs, public education, restorative justice practices, and economic justice.
An Afro-Indigenous Perspective on Policing
In his new book, Kyle T. Mays argues that the violence of policing has always been intimately tied to U.S. democracy.
The Capitol Insurrection and White Supremacist Infiltration of US Police
There is a long history of racism in U.S. policing. For all Americans to be truly safe, it is important to weed out White supremacy, especially in the institution sworn to protect us all.
From Anxiety to Authoritarianism
The human 鈥渇ight or flight鈥� response gives demagogues like Trump a tool for political manipulation. But we could replace oppression with a system of care.
Native Americans on Police Response to Capitol Insurrection
鈥淣o way would Black or Brown people be treated that way had they attacked a symbol of our democracy.鈥�
Alternatives to Calling the Police for Domestic Violence Survivors
In most cases, calling the police on abusers is unhelpful at best, and at worst makes survivors feel less safe: 鈥淚t鈥檚 really time that we recenter on what the survivors are telling us.鈥�
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