Beyond Do No Harm Principles Session #1: Cops Out of Care

This session's topics focus on BDNH Principle #1, how health care providers can end police and ICE presence in hospitals, in or near health care facilities, and places where people are accessing care.

Speakers: Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe (If/When/How), Kelley Butler (#DPHMustDivest), Norman Archer (#DPHMustDivest), Alex Villarraga (#DPHMustDivest), Shamsher Samra (Frontline Wellness Network), and Mark Eisenberg, MD (Mass General Hospital), and facilitated by Fabián Fernández (#DPHMustDivest and Beyond Do No Harm).

ASL Interpreters: COCOA LLC

Live Captioners: Kelli LeBerte & Corvyn Dostie

Event Recording

Image Description: Graphic Notes by Sara Yukimoto-Saltman from #CopsOutofCare Beyond Do No Harm Session 1 including the names of campaigns DPH Must Divest, Frontline Wellness Network, and Mass General. Paper with Resources: #1. Abolitionist Principles for Healthcare Workers, #2 Timeline of Hospital Criminalization, #3 Abolitionist Health-Care Research Ethics in Medicine and Public Health. Areas of Focus fitting together like puzzle pieces: Strategy, Experiment and Reflect, Study. Ruth Wilson Gilmore Quote: "Abolition is about Building Life-Affirming Institutions". Presenter List: Alex Villaraga, Kelley Butler, Mark Eisenberg, Shamsher Samra, Norman Archer, Fabian Fernandez, and Maria Thomas

Resources Shared During the Event

• DPH Must Divest

  • Website https://www.dphmustdivest.com/

  • Resources https://linktr.ee/dphmustdivest 

  • KYR Training: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYw2r7l20l4&t=2457s 

• Frontline Wellness Network

  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/frntwellnetwork?lang=en

  • Insta:https://www.instagram.com/frontlinewellnessnetwork/?hl=en 

• Mass General

  • News on Disproportionate Arrests at Bringham: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/05/23/metro/black-patients-brigham-womens-are-nearly-twice-likely-have-security-called-them-white-patients/ 

  • Study on Disproportionate Arrests at Bringham: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-022-07525-1

• Other Resources

  • Police in ED Toolkit: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/health-justice-alliance/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2021/05/Police-in-the-ED-Medical-Provider-Toolkit.pdf

  • Armed Police out of ERs: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/get-armed-police-out-of-emergency-rooms/

  • Guns and Tasers have no Place in Hospitals: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/guns-and-tasers-have-no-place-in-hospitals/

  • When Hospital Fires the Bullet NYT:

  • https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/hospital-guns-mental-health.html

  • Let’s Take the Punishment Out of Care: https://medium.com/whitecoats4blacklives/lets-take-the-punishment-out-of-healthcare-dceab5482c46

  • APHA Policing and Incarceration Statements: https://www.endingpoliceviolence.com/ 

  • Ji Seon Song ‘Policing in the ED’ https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3864225 

  • No More Police ‘Soft Policing’ https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/no-more-police