RESOURCES FROM RACISM AND THE CRIMINAL SYSTEM: COMMUNITIES FIGHT FOR JUSTICE

THE HISTORY OF RACIST POLICING IN AMERICA

• The Invention of Police, Jill Lepore, The New Yorker

• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi 

• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein

• Top Adviser to Richard Nixon Admitted that 'War on Drugs' was Policy Tool to Go After Anti-War Protesters and 'Black People', Tony Newman, Drug Policy Alliance 

• Brothers: Black and Poor--A True Story of Courage and Survival, Sylvester Monroe

• Illuminating the whole American Idea, Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic

THE EFFECT OF RACIST POLICING IN AMERICA

• Because She's Powerful Report, Essie Justice Group 

• Lives on the Line Report, Essie Justice Group 

• 10 things we know about race and policing in the U.S, Drew Desilver, Michael Lipka, Dalia Fahmy, Pew Research Center

• Policing and Profit, Harvard Law Review

• There’s overwhelming evidence that the criminal justice system is racist. Here’s the proof, Radley Balko, The Washington Post

• The FBI Has a Racism Problem and it Hurts Our National Security, Sana Sekkarie, Georgetown Security Studies Review

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander, The New Press

• No End in Sight: America’s Enduring Reliance on Life Imprisonment, The Sentencing Project

• A Special Unit to Prosecute Police Killings Has No Convictions, Sarah Maslin Nir, Jonah E. Bromwich and Benjamin Weiser, The New York Times

• Just Three Percent of Cases Go to Trial. A New Paper Unpacks How That Hurts Poor People of Color, Rick Jones, Neighborhood Defender Service

• The Jail Crisis, Russell Morse of Neighborhood Defender Service,Yale Law Review

INSIDE POLICING

• In L.A. County, Gangs Wear Badges, Zak Cheney-Rice, Intelligencer

• Blue Bloods: America’s Brotherhood of Police Officers, Eve Ewing, Vanity Fair

• Police Shooting Database 2015 - 2021, Washington Post

ORGANIZATIONS WORKING TO END UNJUST POLICING

• The NDS PACE program, which helps individuals and communities alike secure their futures by addressing the police misconduct that marginalizes them, providing them with resources, and working alongside them to reshape policy in ways that reverberate across generations

• The Essie Justice Group, a nonprofit organization of women with incarcerated loved ones taking on the rampant injustices created by mass incarceration

• Orleans Parish District Attorney, A DA's office that has a progressive agenda aimed at reforms and changes to ensure we have a criminal legal system that serves all people

• JusticeAid, an organization that promotes justice through the arts and public engagement

REFORMS

• DA’s office agrees to vacate 22 non-unanimous jury convictions, Nicolas Chrastil, The Lens

• This City Stopped Sending Police to Every 911 Call, Christie Thompson, The Marshall Project

• Implicit Bias, Racial Equity Tools 

• Defund the Police: Here’s What it Really Means, Christy Lopez, The Washington Post

• City Awarded Additional $1.165M by MacArthur Foundation Safety and Justice Challenge to Rethink Local Justice System, City of New Orleans Press Release

• NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Gina Clayton-Johnson of the Essie Justice Group about opposition to the Justice in Policing Act moving through Congress, and her proposed replacement: the BREATHE Act, NPR 

• The Power of Public Defense, Rick Jones, Neighborhood Defender Service

PERSONAL STORIES

• Elijah McClain's mother relieved he 'is no longer labeled a suspect' after investigation into officers' actions, Oscar Jimenez, Amir Vera, and Eric Levenson, CNN

• How to Kill Yourself and Others Slowly in America: A Remembrance, Kiese Laymon, Gawker 

• Summer Heat, Mariame Kaba, The New Inquiry

VISIT

• 18 Black Museums To Visit Across The U.S., Keyaira Boone, Essence