A report summarizing the impacts of the global drug war on Black women, girls, and trans and gender nonconforming people, as well as the Black feminist visions, analysis, and needs articulated during the Building Black Feminist Visions to End the Drug War convening hosted by Interrupting Criminalization, the Drug Policy Alliance, and In Our Names Network in June 2023.

Chart breaking down the difference between reformist reforms which continue or expand the reach of the drug war, and abolitionist steps that work to chip away and reduce its overall impact. Originally from the report, Building Black Feminist Visions to End the Drug War.

A report sharing insights from a 3-year community story-telling project engaging Black girls, trans and GNC youth around their experiences of police presence in schools, including sexual harassment, assault, and violence.

A summary of lessons learned over the past two years of IC’s monthly, virtual peer learning space for organizations working to collectively intervene in and respond to crises without police — including issues explored, resources shared, questions to consider, and pitfalls to avoid.

Challenging, interrupting, and building a world beyond criminalization is the unifying thread of IC’s work — and of the infrastructure and resources we are creating to support organizers on the ground across the country. Learn more in this summary of IC’s first five years of work.

A resource summarizing key information from the Building Black Feminist Visions to End the Drug War convening, which took place in June 2023, bringing together dozens of Black feminist leaders and allies from 6 countries to explore the possibilities for a shared Black feminist vision and plan of action toward a world that centers bodily autonomy and self-determination in all forms.

A report synopsis of a 3-year community story-telling project engaging youth in Columbia, S.C., New York City, and the Bay Area around their experiences of police presence in schools, including sexual harassment, assault, and violence by police stationed in and around schools.

A resource explaining why it is important to focus on police fraternal organizations as we work to divest from policing and create safer communities, including FAQs and core strategies for challenging and shrinking the power, resources, and legitimacy of PFOs.

A resource on how claims of a “shoplifting surge” by corporations and the media is copaganda, Read about the rise of private security and why it is essential that we strip the power of corporations to criminalize.

This report from the frontlines chronicles ongoing victories in efforts to reduce police budgets, increase investment in meeting community needs and building community-based institutions, and grow movements to divest from the violence of policing. Summarizing lessons learned over the past two years, it calls on movements and philanthropic organizations to make deep and long-term investments in organizing toward the world our communities deserve.

Thirteen principles for supporting people’s agency, self-determination, dignity of risk, and general wellbeing.

This brief is intended to help organizers working to stop the violence of surveillance, policing, and punishment and advance racial, reproductive, gender, LGBTQ, migrant, and disability justice.

This brief offers an analysis of how our movements are connected, and how to push back against a widening web of criminalization.

Combating Narratives Used to Defend Police Instead of Defunding Them

Covid19 Policing Project

This report, in conjunction with an accompanying curriculum for sexual assault service providers, is intended to contribute to breaking this silence, to summarize what we know about sexual violence by law enforcement officers, and to offer concrete steps toward prevention of police sexual violence and increased safety, support, and opportunities for healing for survivors.

In this moment of uprising in response to the multiple crises unfolding across the country and world—particularly police violence against black people—it is imperative that we continue to demand what keeps our communities safe. Trans women and femmes of color (TWOC) have been historically excluded from the formal 1 workforce and forced to rely on criminalized work for survival. Such economic violence leads to police targeting and incarceration. Organizing over the past five years has begun to open up economic opportunities for trans women and femmes of color. We won’t go back. This is the time to fight to maintain and surpass those gains.

Over the past 50 years, radical Black organizations have consistently demanded community control of the police. The idea behind this demand is that those most impacted by oppressive policing should have the power to decide how the system operates in their own communities, and that community control of police would transform the force from an occupier into a partner (or bring truth to idea that the police “protect and serve”)

Many people now know that women are the fastest growing prison and jail populations. Here’s a helpful factsheet on how we can Interrupt the Criminalization of Women, Trans and Gender Nonconforming People.