Reimagine Public Safety

Takeaways from our July 18 Town Hall about what it means to reimagine public safety, how to identify spaces for abolition and where to invest in alternative emergency responders.

Resources

Articles and Webinars

• Nipsey Hussle’s death laid bare the truth about gun violence
  Davetta Jackson-Young and Skipp Townsend

• How Newark Became a Model for Community-Based Violence Reduction
  Aqeela Sherrills

• How Community Accountability Can Help Prevent Intimate Partner Violence in the First Place
  Prevention Institute

• First-year follow-up of the Psychiatric Emergency Response Team (PAM) in Stockholm County, Sweden: A descriptive study
  International Journal of Mental Health

• A long-planned program to remove police from some 911 calls launched as Denver’s streets erupted in police brutality protests
  Denverite

• If not 911, this is who responds to Portland street homelessness
  Street Roots

• After positive results, Minneapolis looks to expand anti-violence program
  MinnPost

• Chicago’s ‘Safe Passage’ Curbs Street Violence Without Police, Studies Show
  NPR

Program Websites

• Advance Peace (Richmond, CA)
• Stockton Trauma Recovery Center (Stockton, CA)
• LIFE Camp (Queens, NY)
• Newark Community Street Team (Newark, NJ)
• Save Our Streets (S.O.S.)  (Brooklyn, NY)
• UCSF HEARTS  (San Francisco, CA)
• Safe Schools NOLA  (New Orleans, LA)
• Portland Street Response (Portland, OR)
• Safe Passage (Seattle, WA)
• The Audre Lorde Project (New York City)
• Safelink (Massachusetts, Statewide)