HOW TO USE THIS WEBSITE:
DEFUND THE POLICE
A one-stop-shop for organizers and advocates looking for tools, resources, trainings, legislation and policies.
WHAT IS DEFUND THE POLICE?
#DefundPolice means divesting from institutions that kill, harm, cage and control our communities, and investing in housing, health care, income support, employment, and community-based safety strategies that will produce genuine and sustainable safety for all.
This site is a one-stop-shop information source for campaigns to defund police, and a place to ask questions, connect with existing networks, and find inspiration!
SINCE MAY 2020, ORGANIZERS IN OVER 20 CITIES HAVE:
- Generated hundreds of thousands of emails, testimonies, and petition signatures calling for defunding of police and investment in communities
- Secured divestment of over $840 million dollars from police departments
- Secured investments of at least $160 million dollars in communities
- Increased transparency and community control over budgets in many areas
- Won bans on chemical/military grade weapons in 6 cities, and on use of facial recognition in 4 cities.
Additionally, over 25 cities canceled contracts with local police departments operating in schools, saving an additional $34 million to be invested in student, family and community supports and restorative justice.
NATIONAL RESOURCES
Ensuring Federal Stimulus Funds Support Communities, Not Cops
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Borealis Communities Transforming Policing Fund, Civilytics Consulting, Community Resource Hub COVID-19 Policing Project RESOURCE TYPE
Budget Advocacy TOPICS
Budget/Reinvestment , Community Based Safety Strategy 
The Demand is Still #DefundPolice #FundThePeople #DefendBlackLives
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Interrupting Criminalization, M4BL RESOURCE TYPE
Organizing Toolkit TOPICS
Budget/Reinvestment 
One Million Experiments
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Project Nia, Interrupting Criminalization RESOURCE TYPE
Community Engagement/Research TOPICS
Community Based Safety Strategy 
Vision for Black Lives: End the War on Black Communities
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M4BL RESOURCE TYPE
Call to Action TOPICS
Budget/Reinvestment , Community Based Safety Strategy 
Freedom To Thrive: Reimagining Safety & Security for Our Communities
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Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), Law for Black Lives, Black Youth Project 100 (BYP 100) RESOURCE TYPE
Report TOPICS
Budget/Reinvestment 
Defund the Police, Rebuild Our Communities
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Dream Defenders RESOURCE TYPE
Organizing Toolkit TOPICS
Budget/Reinvestment 
Our Communities, Our Solutions: An Organizer’s Toolkit for Developing Campaigns to Abolish Policing
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Critical Resistance RESOURCE TYPE
Organizing Toolkit TOPICS
Police Free Public Spaces , Budget/Reinvestment 
Defund Police: An Animated Video
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Project Nia RESOURCE TYPE
Video TOPICS
Budget/Reinvestment BROWSE OR SEARCH THE MAP BELOW FOR RESOURCES ACROSS THE U.S.
Where & how are organizers working to #DefundPolice?
Click on a state, region or city to find local campaigns, resources, legislation & policies!
You can also find cities and states that have materials on particular topics by using the filters to the left of the map.
Once you find a city that has the type of materials you want, click on the city on the map. Then click the yellow “Visit City Page” button on the right hand side of the map. Once you are on the city page, use the filters to the left to narrow down to the topic or resource type you want.
ORGANIZING RESOURCES
LEGISLATION
Browse or search a national database created by Data for Police Abolition to find examples of legislation and policies to #DefundPolice
EVENTS
Freedom Struggle: Angela Davis on Calls to Defund Police, Racism & Capitalism, and the 2020 Election
TRAINING VIDEOS
Abolition is Essential: Organizing Against the Prison Industrial Complex in the Face of Covid-19
CANADIAN RESOURCE SITE
Borders don’t come between Black people demanding to defund police and invest in our communities. In a long tradition of global Black solidarity, communities across Turtle Island and around the world are sharing strategies and joining together to demand divestment from criminal punishment systems that kill, harm and loot resources from our communities, and investments in Black communities, and in genuine and lasting public safety.
Our intention is for this site and defundthepolice.org, which highlights struggles to defund police in Canada, to be read together as a shared tapestry of resistance.