Defending Democracy:
Transforming Public Safety
—A Reading List—
for participants in our August 12, 2020
panel discussion
"10 Ways to Do Racial Justice Advocacy After You Say "Black Lives Matter"
from the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
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"Inside Montclair Schools' Restorative Justice Program"
by Tina Kelley for the Montclair Local
https://www.montclairlocal.news/2020/05/31/inside-montclair-schools-restorative-justice-program/
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The Newark Police Department Consent Decree
between the police department, the community, and the Justice Department
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"Defunding the Police Will Actually Make Us Safer"
by the ACLU
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from the Atlantic
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Operation Ceasefire in Oakland
from Mother Jones
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Police accountability in Connecticut
from the Hartford Courant
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"We train police to be warriors—and then send them out to be social workers"
by Roge Karma for Vox
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An extraordinary ruling about the dangers of qualified immunity
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On the transfer of weapons of war to local police
by Jake Johnson for Common Dreams
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"What Would It Mean to 'Defund the Police'? These Cities Offer Ideas"
by Jon Schuppe for NBC News
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"These Cities Replaced Cops With Social Workers, Medics, and People Without Guns"
by Greg Walters for Vice
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"When Cities Replace Police with Social Workers"
by Emma Coleman for Ms. Magazine
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"This city [Camden, NJ] disbanded its police department 7 years ago. Here's what happened next"
by Scottie Andrew for CNN
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"This town of 170,000 replaced some cops with medics and mental health workers. It's worked for over 30 years"
by Scottie Andrew for CNN
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"The Movement to Defund or Disband Police: Here's What You Need To Know Now"
by Jack Kelly for Forbes