Decarcerating Transportation: A Mobility Justice Framework
Historically, armed policing has been the default solution to traffic safety concerns. This, however, perpetuates racial profiling, exacerbates societal disparities, and, at times, results in violent death.
Our new comprehensive report advocates for a paradigm shift through the Seven D’s of Mobility Justice, emphasizing justice, equity, and infrastructure-based solutions to create safe roads and reduce engagement with law enforcement.
Interrupting Intimate Partner Violence: A Guide for Community Responses Without Police
Many communities in the United States — especially Black, Indigenous, and other people of color; immigrants; disabled people; and queer and trans people — experience state violence at extremely high rates. When violence erupts in the home, survivors in these communities cannot depend on state systems for safety.
For generations, people in these communities have found safety outside of the state in one another, developing alternative, often informal responses to intervene in violence in their homes and communities. Building from this tradition, a growing movement has been experimenting with processes for preventing and disrupting violence and holding people who harm accountable within the community without relying on the criminal punishment system.
The purpose of this guide is to present organizers, IPV providers, advocates, policymakers, community members, and families with practical, safe considerations and tools to create a community first response for IPV that is not based in the punitive U.S. carceral system.
Our goal is to create a replicable model grounded in safety, healing, family, and community. We as a community have the answers to many of our most pressing problems. We don’t need police because we take care of us.
Healing Justice Train the Trainer: A Curriculum Manual For Facilitators
APTP and our statewide network the Justice Teams Network have created the Healing Justice Train the Trainer Manual for people to facilitate their own healing justice training in order to transform systems of violence statewide. This manual intends to support Healing Justice (HJ) practitioners, healthcare practitioners, organizers, and politicized healers committed to incorporating Healing Justice principles, practices, and actions into all movement work.
The manual takes you step by step to facilitate your own Healing Justice training. The training itself is aimed to support community organizations, collectives, organizers, community members, health practitioners, traditional medicine peoples, and educators in implementing HJ as a framework for their community work.
There is no police staffing Crisis
An analysis of Oakland Police Department call data shows that OPD wastes resources on noncriminal and nonviolent interactions instead of focusing on violent crime. Amidst a spike in homicides and shootings over the past few years, elected officials have called for more police spending despite OPD’s spectacular failure to stem violence even as it receives the lion’s share of the City’s general fund.
Oakland is Reimagining Public Safety
The Defund Police Coalition’s response to the final recommendations of Oakland’s Reimagining Public Safety Task Force released on March 1, 2021.
Written by: Cat Brooks & James Burch
Additional Contributions by: Annie Banks, Maureen Benson, Tracey Corder, Woods Ervin, Linda Sánchez, Liz Suk, Pete Woiwode.
Sponsored by: The Defund Police Coalition
APTP First Responders Training Guide
Developed by APTP’s First Responders Committee, this Guide describes our model for supporting families impacted by various forms of police terror and documenting abuses by police throughout the Bay Area. After an incident of state terror, we connect impacted families and community members with resources and legal referrals. We organize to respond to police murders and incidents of excessive force because we believe in the need to defend ourselves and our communities from violence.
This Guide was designed for APTP Trainings. We encourage you to personalize this Guide in your efforts to eradicate and heal from state sanctioned violence in your communities. We do ask that you credit APTP for the model itself. APTP is available to come to your community and offer in-person training.
AB 931, the Police Accountability and Community Protection Act
AB 931 will reduce the number of police killings by allowing the use of deadly force ONLY when there is an imminent threat to an officer or someone else, and there are no other viable alternatives.
AB 931 will:
Establish that law enforcement cannot use deadly force unless there are no other reasonable alternatives.
Establish that use of force by law enforcement is not justified if the officer's criminal negligence contributed to causing the imminent threat.
Raise the legal standard for use of force, establishing that law enforcement can only use deadly force if there is an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to the officer.
