In response to the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others, ANA issued a formal statement denouncing violence against the Black community and calling for national police reform. As part of this response, the ANA Advocacy Committee assembled resources for self-education about police reform; this work was led by Advocacy Committee member Vanessa Zhou.
Police Reform
Police Reform: A Curated Collection of Links (The Marshall Project) https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/110-police-reform
K Agbebiyi (2020). What We Mean When We Say Defund the Police https://rewire.news/article/2020/06/11/what-we-mean-when-we-say-defund-the-police/
Edward Ongweso Jr. (2020). ‘Defund the Police’ Actually Means Defunding the Police https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep4xy7/what-does-defund-and-abolish-the-police-mean
Movement for Black Lives. A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom and Justice – action plans and demands in defense of Black lives, including a call to end qualified immunity, demilitarize and defund the police, community control, etc.
https://m4bl.org/week-of-action/
Lisa Mascaro (2020). Democrats prepare police reform bills after Floyd’s death
https://cbs12.com/news/connect-to-congress/democrats-prepare-police-reform-bills-after-floyds-death
Sean Collins (2021). The House has passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act https://www.vox.com/2021/3/3/22295856/george-floyd-justice-in-policing-act-2021-passed-house
Campaign Zero. #8CantWait – eight, data-backed policies for reducing police violence https://8cantwait.org/
Reading Revolution – resources on anti-Black violence, policing, and incarceration https://www.artforum.com/slant/online-resources-in-the-struggle-against-anti-black-violence-policing-and-incarceration-83175
Laniyonu & Goff (2021). Measuring disparities in police use of force and injury among persons with serious mental illness https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-021-03510-w
American Psychological Association (2020). APA Urges Closer Partnerships Between Police, Behavioral Experts To Stem Racial Incidents
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/06/police-partnerships
Erlanger Turner (2018). How can psychology advance police-community relations? Using psychological science and advocacy to contribute to solutions https://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/communique/2018/06/police-relations
Shaun King (2019). If You Are Black and in a Mental Health Crisis, 911 Can Be a Death Sentence https://theintercept.com/2019/09/29/police-shootings-mental-health/
Curtis Gilbert (2017). Minimizing Mental Fitness https://www.apmreports.org/story/2017/12/14/minneapolis-police-recruits-psychological-testing
Scientific American (2020). George Floyd’s Autopsy and the Structural Gaslighting of America – Op-ed on the weaponization of medical language
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/george-floyds-autopsy-and-the-structural-gaslighting-of-america/
Obama Foundation. Anguish and Action – resources on police brutality and mental health, police violence, antiracism in America, action campaigns, trauma support, and social justice organizations https://www.obama.org/anguish-and-action/
Policing and Neurological Disorders
TBI
Shackelford, J., & Nale, S. (2016). Training Law Enforcement Officers to Differentiate Traumatic Brain Injury From Alcohol Intoxication. Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 43, 154–163. https://doi.org/10.1044/cicsd_43_s_154
Claudia Center (2016). Keith Lamont Scott’s Disability May Have Gotten Him Killed, and He’s Not The Only One (ACLU) https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police/keith-lamont-scotts-disability-may-have-gotten-him-killed
Autism
Code Switch Podcast (2014). For Parents Of Young Black Men With Autism, Extra Fear About Police https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/08/23/342688183/for-parents-of-young-black-men-with-autism-extra-fear-about-police
Allison Norlian (2020. For Mothers Of Black Children With Disabilities, Living With Twice The Fear
https://www.forbes.com/sites/allisonnorlian/2020/06/09/for-mothers-of-black-children-with-disabilities-living-with-twice-the-fear/#24a39de6353e
Adewale, V. (2015). Black Autistic Lives Matter. Autism-Open Access, 5(2), 2–4. https://doi.org/10.4172/2165-7890.1000141
Hannah Furfaro (2018). Why police need training to interact with people on the spectrum https://www.spectrumnews.org/features/deep-dive/police-need-training-interact-people-spectrum/
ASAN (2020). What is Police Violence? A plain language booklet about anti-Black racism, police violence, and what you can do to stop it
https://autisticadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/PL-Police-Violence-Toolkit.pdf