This toolkit elevates 12 areas of policy reforms for local jurisdictions to consider as they work to reform and transform local policing practices and advance public safety. While we offer these policies as promising areas for reform, we do not intend for them to be a comprehensive list. We acknowledge that these reforms do not fully tackle the structural challenges of racialized over-policing, hyper-criminalization, or mass incarceration. Together, however, they represent a path forward to mitigate the negative impacts of existing institutions and practices, and to advance significant progress in the way policing operates in our communities.

    1. Independent Oversight
    2. Data and Transparency
    3. Transparency in Police and Civilian Encounters
    4. An End to the Co-optation of Local Law Enforcement for Federal Immigration Enforcement
    5. Demilitarization
    6. Pre-booking Diversion Programs
    7. An End to the School-to-Prison-and-Deportation Pipeline
    8. Bans on Bias-Based Policing
    9. Use of Force
    10. Property Seizure and Asset Forfeiture
    11. Investments in Public Safety Beyond Policing
    12. Creating a Community Responder Program