In this powerful call to action, New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba and attorney and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie detail why policing doesn’t stop violence, instead perpetuating widespread harm; outline the many failures of contemporary police reforms; and explore demands to defund police, divest from policing, and invest in community resources to create greater safety through a Black feminist lens.

A collection of resources to aid in evaluation and reflection compiled by Interrupting Criminalization, Project Nia & Critical Resistance.

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.

Police Abolition 101 is a collaborative zine based on material by MPD 150 and on a report titled "What's Next?" edited by Interrupting Criminalization and Project NIA.

This toolkit provides a step-by-step diagnostic tool to assess conflict in movement-building organizations and groups and provides strategies, tools, and resources to transform that conflict.

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

This worksheet will take you through naming your conflict transformation skills, areas where you can keep building and deepening those skills, relationships that can support you in that work, and structures that can be resources where you are.

This guide from the ground gathers lessons and victories from organizers who called for and engaged with public safety task forces over the past year — and the past decade. It is intended to support communities navigating common questions, taking into account the particular conditions of their own communities.

How do we imagine a world without prisons and policing? Transforming our punishment mindsets is a daily discipline. Punishment is so deeply ingrained that we fail to even notice how we enact it in our lives. It takes practice to uproot it and to focus on being more restorative in our interactions.

When prison industrial complex abolitionists tell people that they want to abolish police and prisons, they invariably ask, “what about the rapists?” Explore brief answers to this question, as well as questions that abolitionists can ask in return.

Combating Narratives Used to Defend Police Instead of Defunding Them

The primary purpose of this guide is to serve as a pragmatic tool for individuals and communities organizing and advocating for non-police mental health crisis responses, and to offer key considerations for what can be a complex, costly, and long-term intervention strategy.

What is a restorative conversation? How do we ground our conversations in seeing each other's humanity? Explore “A Restorative Conversation Toolkit” and learn about restorative justice values and principles, the goals and strategies of restorative conversations, and how to craft your own restorative questions. 

Covid19 Policing Project

This is a curriculum for sexual assault service providers intended to accompany Interrupting Criminalization’s report Shrouded in Silence: Police Sexual Violence - What We Know and What We Can Do About It. Facilitators and participants are strongly encouraged to review the report before using any of the exercises in this curriculum.

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.