Minneapolis (June 4, 2020). Photo courtesy of Lorie Shaull

Minneapolis (June 4, 2020). Photo courtesy of Lorie Shaull

Additional Resources


What is Strategic Racism?
The Doctrine of Corporate Greed
What is the Criminalization Trap?
The Many Harms of Incarceration
The Charter School and Tough-on-Crime Lies
The One-Stop Law Enforcement Shop

Check Out Divest/Invest Data

The interactive dashboards at DivestInvestData.org include:

(1) data on criminal justice spending and staffing increases over the past four decades for every state and over 100 cities and counties across the U.S.; and

(2) in-depth analyses of the most recent budgets of the 20 largest cities in the U.S., examining spending on criminal justice compared to mental and behavioral health, affordable housing, parks and recreation, and other critical needs for building truly safe and healthy communities.