How health departments can address police violence as a public health issue: Recommendations and specific actions for health departments to take to help end police violence
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This resource from Human Impact Partners highlights the upstream, structural solutions required to address the health impacts of policing and incarceration, a system which disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous communities.
These upstream public health solutions to the overlapping public health crises of racism and policing could create positive impacts in health, economic security, violence prevention, and more.
Recommendations for health departments
This document outlines five recommendations, with tips for implementation and resources to help public health departments begin this work.
Topics include the following:
- Partnerships with community
- Discourses and evidence bases regarding police and police violence
- The role of health departments in solutions
- Support for health rather than punishment
Use this resource to
- understand the role of public health in developing upstream solutions;
- guide public health departments in implementing new approaches to policing; and
- get started with specific actions for health departments to take to help end police violence.
Reference
Human Impact Partners. (2020). How health departments can address police violence as a public health issue: Recommendations and specific actions for health departments to take to help end police violence. https://humanimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/How-Health-Departments-Can-Address-Police-Violence-As-A-Public-Health-Issue.pdf
Related resources
- Webinar recording: Actionable ways to address anti-Black racism & police violence through public health practice (2020)
- Health instead of punishment (2020)
- Webinar series: State violence is a public health crisis (2020)
- Addressing law enforcement violence as a public health issue (2018)
Tags: Community engagement, Racism/racialization, Stigma, discrimination, Document, Report / Document