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Mental Health (MH) First is a cutting-edge new model for non-police response to mental health crisis. Oakland will be the second city now operating this service; MH First Sacramento has been operating since January 2020. Learn more >

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Read about our class action lawsuit against OPD for its use of force against protestors during the 2020 uprising. Learn more >

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APTP commissioned a study to analyze how the Oakland Police Department spends its time. The study revealed that only 4% of calls received by OPD were for "violent crime.” Learn more >

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A new analysis of OPD call data presented here shows that there is no officer staffing crisis. Rather, this report finds that the department is currently wasting significant officer time on noncriminal and nonviolent issues instead of focusing on violent crime. Learn more >

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Care Not Cops Conference, June 26-28th 2026, Sacramento

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Care Not Cops is a three-day hybrid covening, both virtual and in person, rooted in one clear truth: our communities deserve responses to crises that heal, not harm. For too long, state violence has been the default answer to mental health crises, substance use, domestic violence, and poverty. We have watched police responses escalate situations that required compassion, trained care, and support. As federal policies and rhetoric fuel more instability and fear, the urgency to build community-led alternatives has never been greater.

Care Not Cops meets this moment head on. This gathering is about training, resourcing, and connecting people who are committed to building mutual aid networks, healing justice ecosystems, and real models of public safety grounded in dignity, prevention, and collective wellbeing. The Justice Teams Networks and Anti Police-Terror Project are bringing together community members, Healing Justice practitioners, mental health providers, organizers, policymakers, and advocates to learn from one another and to strengthen the infrastructure of care.

The Healing Justice & Alternatives Conference will take place June 27th and June 28th, 2026 in Sacramento, California.  This conference creates space to build real alternatives that interrupt the cultural and structural conditions that produce trauma and state violence. Through skill-building workshops and resource-sharing sessions focused on policy, lived experience, organizing strategy, and sustainable funding, we will center practical solutions. At the same time, we honor rest, creativity, and joy as essential components of liberation. Art, music, laughter, and intentional respite are woven throughout the experience because healing is not separate from the work. It is the work.

The Community Wellness & Healing Justice Festival on June 26th in Oak Park will extend the conference beyond traditional walls, offering direct access to services for our unhoused neighbors and the broader community. Wellness resources, food, art, entertainment, and community dialogue will be available in real time, reducing barriers and modeling what care in action truly looks like.

Care Not Cops is more than a gathering. It is a commitment to building crisis response systems that reduce harm, deepen trust, and sustain long-term wellbeing in Sacramento and beyond.

For additional information, you may contact the Care Not Cops Organizing Team at carenotcops@antipoliceterrorproject.org