HOW TO USE THIS WEBSITE:
DEFUND THE POLICE
A one-stop-shop for organizers and advocates looking for tools, resources, and trainings to divest from policing and build safer communities
WHAT IS DEFUND THE POLICE?
#DefundPolice means divesting from institutions that kill, harm, cage and control our communities, and investing in violence prevention and interruption, housing, health care, income support, employment, and other community-based safety strategies that will produce safer communities for everyone.
Even as demands to defund police are being dismissed and attacked, communities are continuing to fight for divestment of funds, power, and legitimacy from police and other violent institutions that fail to produce safety while looting resources our communities need to survive.
We are building safety. We are building movements that will sustain our future. The demand is still #DefundthePolice.
Check out this video highlighting ongoing campaigns to divest from policing and build safer communities produced by Interrupting Criminalization, and dive in! Learn more about how to use this site here or by watching this video.
Abortion Decriminalization is Part of the Larger Struggle Against Policing and Criminalization
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Abortion Care Network, Academy of Perinatal Harm Reduction, Elephant Circle, Human Impact Partners, If/When/How, Interrupting Criminalization, National Network of Abortion Funds, Physicians for Reproductive Health RESOURCE TYPE
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Community Based Safety Strategy 
Cops Don’t Stop Violence: Combating Narratives Used to Defend Police Instead of Defunding Them
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Community Resource Hub for Safety & Accountability, Interrupting Criminalization RESOURCE TYPE
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Budget/Reinvestment , Community Based Safety Strategy 
Ensuring American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) 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
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Budget/Reinvestment , Community Based Safety Strategy 
The Demand is Still #DefundPolice #FundThePeople #DefendBlackLives
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Interrupting Criminalization, M4BL RESOURCE TYPE
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One Million Experiments
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Project Nia, Interrupting Criminalization RESOURCE TYPE
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Community Based Safety Strategy 
Vision for Black Lives: End the War on Black Communities
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M4BL RESOURCE TYPE
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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
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Budget/Reinvestment 
Our Communities, Our Solutions: An Organizer’s Toolkit for Developing Campaigns to Abolish Policing
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Critical Resistance RESOURCE TYPE
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Police Free Public Spaces , Budget/Reinvestment 
Defund the Police, Rebuild Our Communities
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Dream Defenders RESOURCE TYPE
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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
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Browse or search a national database created by Data for Police Abolition to find examples of legislation and policies to #DefundPolice
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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.