Originally recorded on November 6, 2014 @ 2:00pm CT

This webinar looks at the ingredients needed for improving and transforming the relationship between trans communities and police departments, and helps map a path to getting there. Using examples from cities that have made progress in this area, viewers will have the chance to better understand their local situation, and what steps they might need to take to advance their work around policing. We also take a brief look at the broader framework of laws that may help guide viewers’ efforts. Our presenter is Jason Terry, a peace and justice trainer and advocate who has been an anti-violence organizer with the DC Trans Coalition for five years, and is a co-founder of the DC Anti-Violence Collaborative. Jason is the lead liaison for DC LGBT organizations working with DC’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), and is a member of MPD’s LGBT Violence Prevention and Response Team and the U.S. Attorney for DC’s Hate Crimes Task Force.

Resources:

Three slides from the webinar, enlarged:

1. Peacebulding Framework

2. A Context of Broader Oppression

3. Crafting a Political Strategy

#GetYrRights Website

http://getyrrights.org/

Strategy

• Bayard Rustin, “From Protest to Politics,” 1965
  http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735066227830.pdf

• Lisa Schirch, “Strategic Peacebuilding: State of the Field,” 2008
  http://www.wiscomp.org/pp-v1/Lisa_Schirch.pd
  

National Trends and Federal Policy

• Stonewalled: Police Abuse and Misconduct Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the U.S.
  http://www.streetwiseandsafe.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/StonewalledAI.pdf

• A Roadmap for Change: Federal Policy Recommendations for Addressing the Criminalization of LGBT People and People Living with HIV
  http://web.law.columbia.edu/gender-sexuality/roadmap-change

• NCAVP Report on Hate Violence Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and HIV-Affected Communities in the United States in 2013 (see pp. 46-49, 64-65, 75-76 for discussion on police response, police violence, and recommendations)
  http://www.avp.org/storage/documents/2013_ncavp_hvreport_final.pdf

• NCAVP Report on Intimate Partner Violence in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ), and HIV-Affected Communities in the United States in 2013 (see pp. 49-52, 64-65 for discussion on police response and barriers to seeking police service)
  http://www.avp.org/storage/documents/2013_ncavp_ipvreportfinalweb.pdf

New Orleans

• Department of Justice Investigation of the New Orleans Police Department
  http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/nopd_report.pdf

• New Orleans Police Department Policy 402
  http://www.youthbreakout.org/content/nopds-lgbtq-policy

• BreakOUT’s Guide to Street Safety
  http://www.youthbreakout.org/content/breakout-guide-street-safety-and-preserving-your-rights-police

• BreakOUT’s We Deserve Better police training video
  http://www.youthbreakout.org/content/we-deserve-better-nopd-campaign

• We Deserve Better: A Report on Policing in New Orleans By and For Queer and Trans Youth of Color
  http://www.youthbreakout.org/content/we-deserve-better-report-policing-new-orleans-and-queer-and-trans-youth-color

New York

• Communities United for Police Reform: About the Community Safety Act
  http://changethenypd.org/about-community-safety-act

• Communities United for Police Reform: Priorities for the New NYPD Inspector General
  http://changethenypd.org/resources/priorities-new-nypd-inspector-general-promoting-safety-dignity-and-rights-all-new-yorkers

• Communities United for Police Reform: Know Your Rights
  http://changethenypd.org/resources/know-your-rights-help-end-discriminatory-abusive-illegal-policing

• Streetwise and Safe: Criminal Injustice Map
  http://justicemap.streetwiseandsafe.org/index.html

• Audre Lorde Project: Safe Outside the System Collective
  http://alp.org/community/sos

• Audre Lorde Project: ‘We Were Never Meant to Survive’: A Statement on Police Violence, Hate Violence, and Anti-Black Racism
  http://alp.org/%E2%80%98we-were-never-meant-survive%E2%80%99-statement-police-violence-hate-violence-and-anti-black-racism

Los Angeles

• City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission Recommended Model Policies and Standards for the Los Angeles Police Department’s Interactions with Transgender Individuals
  http://hrc.lacity.org/pdf/July2010_lapd-interact-transgender.pdf

• Los Angeles Police Department policy on interactions with transgender individuals
  http://learningtrans.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/lapd-transgender-policies.pdf

District of Columbia

• Metropolitan Police Department General Order 501.02
  http://dctranscoalition.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/go-501-02.pdf

• Move Along: Policing Sex Work in DC
  http://dctranscoalition.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/movealongreport.pdf

• DC Trans Needs Assessment: Phase 1 Summary Findings
  http://dctranscoalition.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/dctc-needs-assessment-phase-one-summary.pdf

• DC Trans Needs Assessment: Phase 2 Preliminary Findings
  http://dctranscoalition.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/tna-lumby-infographic_ee_7_16.pdf

• Report of the Hate Crimes Assessment Task Force (with Metropolitan Police Department response)
  http://dctranscoalition.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/hcatf-report.pdf

• Community Response to the Hate Crimes Assessment Task Force
  http://dctranscoalition.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/community-response-to-the-hate-crimes-assessment-task-force.pdf

• DC Trans Coalition’s Know Your Rights with DC Police
  http://dctranscoalition.wordpress.com/know-your-rights-in-dc/your-rights-with-the-metro-police/

(List compiled by webinar guest speaker Jason Terry)

Presenter Jason Terry with FORGE Staff