This resource emerged from Beyond Do No Harm Network’s Cops Out of Care working group, and shares principles for researchers in medicine and public health, as part of engaging in critical self-reflection in order to do this work. We hope these principles will be useful for researchers who are challenging policing in its multiple forms.

This set of principles emerged from Beyond Do No Harm Network’s Cops Out of Care working group, and was created to ensure that participants are in alignment around a shared vision, and how we get there. These principles can help inform tactics and strategies towards dismantling policing in health care.

A resource co-created by the Beyond Do No Harm Network’s Cops Out of Care working group that shows various points at which criminalization occurs in health care settings, as well as opportunities for providers to interrupt criminalization.

A guide to help health care workers, organizers, researchers, students and people curious or concerned about the criminalization in the context of access to health care, to explore and reflect on the Beyond Do No Harm principles, and to inspire collective action to prevent and interrupt criminalization of people seeking care.

An annotated version of the indictment filed against #StopCopCity organizers, featuring critical information and context, questions for discussion, and more.

The reality of mandatory reporting can make it hard for young people to know that if they reach out to adults for help will that adult have to report what you tell them? This zine helps answer the question, “What is mandatory reporting?” and helps explore what support you have, what support you need, and uses art, poetry, and music to explore what’s possible.

Practicing New Worlds explores how principles of emergence, adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence, decentralization and fractalization can shape organizing toward a world without the violence of surveillance, police, prisons, jails, or cages of any kind, in which we collectively have everything we need to survive and thrive.

A resource for journalists covering the issue of sexual violence by law enforcement agents, including police, school “resource” officers, school “safety” officers, private security stationed in schools, probation, parole, and immigration authorities, and Customs and Border Patrol.

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.

An introduction to Police Fraternal Organizations, including what they are, why we should care, how they harm women and girls of color, and systemic responses we can use to combat them.

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.

Una herramienta para reflexión y discusión para organizadores abolicionistas.

A resource for media and communicators covering the recent indictments of #StopCopCity organizers in Atlanta on how to avoid perpetuating copaganda.

This is the first in a series of ‘zines engaging questions raised in Interrupting Criminalization’s Abolition and the State: A Discussion Guide.

Postcards created as companion materials to the report Shoplifting: Corporate Copaganda.

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.

Illustrated graphic notes from IC’s Building Coordinated Crisis Response monthly practice space, which kicked off in 2022. This virtual learning space is for groups working to collectively intervene in and respond to crises without police.

Illustrated graphic notes from the Building Black Feminist Visions to End the Drug War virtual convening, hosted by Interrupting Criminalization, the Drug Policy Alliance, and the In Our Names Network on June 6-7, 2023.

In this edition of BYATB, Mariame Kaba and zara raven will discuss Queenie’s Crew, an experiment in supporting kids and caregivers in learning about abolition through monthly activities, books, events, and discussions. We’ll share tangible actions that people can take toward building communities of care with children in the spaces where you are. We’ll also invite participants to share about some of the ways they are already building these communities, discuss the barriers and challenges that arise along the way, and offer specific resources to support folks in learning to build abolitionist, intergenerational communities of care.