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Saving Lives: Ten Essential Actions Cities Can Take to Reduce Violence Now

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2022

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Council on Criminal Justice

Policy Areas Public Safety

This report argues that city leaders should aim for a 10% annual reduction in homicides and non-fatal shootings by identifying key individuals and locations driving violence and creating comprehensive citywide engagement plans. Solutions must include place-based policing, investments...

Step-by-Step Guide to Drafting Your Own Community Safety Policy at the State Level

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2022

Level State

State(s) All States

Source Civil Rights Corps

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Safety

A Community Safety Policy is a policy agenda that shifts the concept of “safety” from a primarily criminal-legal model to a new framework that roots safety in public health and makes investments in non-carceral solutions. This guide outlines four steps states can take to create their...

Preventing and Mitigating Police-Involved Violence

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source State Innovation Exchange

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety, Public Safety, Civil Rights

Alarming rates of police brutality and abuse of power persist across U.S. cities and states, with 987 people shot and killed by law enforcement officers in 2017 alone. Victims of police-involved violence are disproportionately people of color, and a quarter of victims struggle with...

Sentencing reform through a stronger SB 3

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town

State(s) Ohio

Source Policy Matters Ohio

Policy Areas Housing, Public Safety

Senate Bill 3, under consideration in the Ohio Senate, seeks to provide addiction treatment instead of incarceration to Ohioans charged with possession of certain drugs. As introduced, SB 3 would reclassify some low-level drug offenses from felonies to misdemeanors. This is an important...

Social and Behavioral Sciences Team 2016 Annual Report

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level National

State(s) All States

Source National Science and Technology Council

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety, Health, Finance & Procurement, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Education

The Social and Behavioral Sciences Team 2016 Annual Report highlights SBST's progress implementing the President's directive over the past year in eight key policy areas: promoting retirement security, advancing economic opportunity, improving college access and affordability, responding...

Beyond Policing: Investing in Offices of Neighborhood Safety

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Center for American Progress

Policy Areas Public Safety

This report provides a road map for city governments to establish a civilian Office of Neighborhood Safety (ONS) that provides the infrastructure and resources necessary for successful community-based public safety efforts. This report details varying structures and systems in place...

An Organizer’s Guide to Confront Pretrial Risk Assessment Tools in Decarceration Campaigns

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level State

State(s) All States

Source Community Justice Exchange

Policy Areas Civil Rights

Risk assessment tools (RATs) are decision-making rubrics that make predictions; they utilize a multitude of tools to make predictions about a defendant’s statistical likelihood, or “risk,” of not returning to court or being rearrested if released. Ultimately, RATs greatly influence...

No More Shackles: Ten Arguments Against Pretrial Electronic Monitoring

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source Media Justice

Policy Areas Data & Technology, Public Safety

This report outlines ten arguments against the use of pretrial electronic monitoring. It describes how monitoring restricts a person's ability to earn income; reduces access to legal resources and due process; limits participation in parenting and caregiving, increases the risk of...

On the Road to Freedom: An Abolitionist Assessment of Pretrial and Bail Reforms

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Texas

Source Community Justice Exchange

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Economic Justice

Each year, about half a million individuals are incarcerated because they cannot afford bail, even though they remain innocent until proven guilty. This report examines pretrial and bail reforms, including eliminating cash bail for misdemeanors, establishing pretrial release as the...

2020 San Francisco Ordinance 123-20 Prohibiting Revenue Collection from Incarcerated Individuals

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source San Francisco Board of Supervisors

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Economic Justice

This ordinance prohibits the city from making contracts or agreements with jail facilities that allow it to generate revenue from the sale of goods and services to inmates. It also explains how the city has previously generated funding through heavily marked up prices on phone calls...

LGBTQ Criminal Justice Reform

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source National Center for Transgender Equality

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Safety

Incarceration is inherently traumatic, dehumanizing, and harmful. It imposes tremendous costs on individuals, their loved ones, and our communities. Fortunately, there is much that LGBTQ advocates can do to combat the crisis of mass incarceration that disproportionately affects poor...

The Case Against Pretrial Risk Assessment Instruments

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Pretrial Justice Institute

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Community Development, Public Safety

Pretrial risk assessment instruments (RAIs) are tools intended to estimate two key outcomes for those who are released pending trial: the likelihood that someone will fail to appear for court, and the likelihood that someone will be arrested for a new crime before the disposition...

Transparency is Not Enough: A Framework for Building Campaign Strategy

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year -

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Community Justice Exchange

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Safety, Health

Activists, organizers, and reformers often demand transparency from the criminal legal system because of the harm the system inflicts behind closed doors—particularly upon Black and Brown, poor, LGBTQ, and immigrant communities. For organizers working to dismantle the criminal legal...

Reducing Officer-Involved Shootings in Fresno, CA

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source American Civil Liberties Union of California

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Public Safety

Police officers are authorized to use force in the line of duty to protect the public they serve. However, inappropriate use of this authority can erode trust between the police and the public and undermine the core mandate of the police to “protect and serve.” Between 2001 and 2016,...

Guidelines for Respecting the Rights of Individuals on Electronic Monitors

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source Media Justice

Policy Areas Data & Technology, Public Safety

This brief establishes guidelines for the implementation of electronic monitoring. In order to respect the human rights of those being monitored, rules for electronic monitoring should be transparent and accommodate basic daily needs without imposing unnecessary restrictions; monitoring...

Electronic Monitoring in Tucson, Arizona

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level County

State(s) Arizona

Source Pima County Safety and Justice Challenge

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Safety

The limited use of electronic monitoring (EM) in Pima County, Arizona, is a result of state legislation restricting its application to nonviolent misdemeanor sentences, excluding pretrial cases. Expanding EM to pretrial use could significantly reduce jail populations and address racial...

2) 2023 New York City Ordinance 1252 Establishing a Task Force Addressing Housing for Incarcerated Transgender Individuals

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2023

Level City or Town

State(s) New York

Source City of New York

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Economic Justice, Housing

Transgender, gender nonconforming, and intersex individuals often face uninformed or discriminatory practices at the hands of public institutions. This ordinance establishes a task force to address policies related to the treatment of current or formerly incarcerated individuals within...

Responding to Hate Crimes: A Community Resource Manual

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2009

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source National Center for Transgender Equality

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Safety

This manual provides tools to create an effective response to a hate crime committed against transgender members of your community. It includes model meeting and event planning worksheets, press kits, and other resources advocates will need to raise awareness in the general public....

Alternatives to Arrest for Young People

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source National League of Cities

Policy Areas Public Safety

Evidence shows that young people achieve better life outcomes and are less likely to commit future crimes when kept out of juvenile court and detention facilities. This brief highlights case studies in which cities have diverted youth away from the juvenile justice system through...

Community Corrections in Ohio: Cost Savings and Program Effectiveness

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2012

Level City or Town

State(s) Ohio

Source Policy Matters Ohio

Policy Areas Finance & Procurement, Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety

This report finds that community corrections programs and community-based treatments are significantly less costly than imprisonment and makes the case for their expansion. ...

Behavioural Insights for Cities

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level County

State(s) All States

Source The Behavioural Insights Team

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Health, Housing, Public Safety, Education, Democracy & Governance

By 2050, two out of every three people on the planet will live in a city. Urbanization and new ideas go hand in hand; by their very nature, cities have long served to create pockets of innovation, changing and improving the way we live our lives in the process. Historically this process...

2011 Cook County Policy for Responding to ICE Detainers

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2011

Level County

State(s) Illinois

Source Cook County Board

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Safety

This ordinance requires the Sheriff of Cook County to decline ICE detainer requests unless there is written agreement stating that all costs incurred by Cook County in complying with the ICE detainer shall be reimbursed. It also prohibits ICE agents from accessing individuals or County...

2022 New York Ordinance 18-0066 Establishing the Office of Neighborhood Safety

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2022

Level City or Town

State(s) New York

Source City of New York

Policy Areas Public Safety

This local law formally establishes an Office of Neighborhood Safety (ONS) to address gun violence and public safety, using an approach that considers socioeconomic and public health factors and seeks to address the root causes of violence. It also delegates the responsibility of...

Getting It Right: Building Effective Civilian Review Boards to Oversee Police

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source ACLU

Policy Areas Public Safety

A white paper by the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union detailing recommendations for designing effective civil review boards to oversee law enforcement. The paper includes a brief history of civil review boards and specific tactics for addressing gaps in police...

2020 Charlottesville Police Training and Weaponry Resolution

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) Virginia

Source City of Charlottesville

Policy Areas Public Safety

This 2020 Resolution prohibits the Charlottesville Police Department from receiving military training or acquiring weaponry from the United States Government, any foreign military or police, or any private company....

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