Tools to Promote Safer Communities

Knowledge is our most powerful tool to create change. This resource center organizes a collection of advocacy toolkits, webinars, columns, statements, and media coverage on the issues that we care about most. 

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When We Tell Our Stories

How survivors of color are most harmed and least helped by the public safety system.

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February 22, 2013

The false choice between victims and sentencing reform

There is a serious irony to this dynamic.
January 23, 2013

Lawmakers have opportunity to flatline prison growth

The policy changes that reduce prison expansion are critical, but without investing in our local public safety infrastructure, we will not actually be strengthening Oregon’s approach to crime and accountability in sustainable ways.
January 1, 2013

We Deserve Better

The Safe Kids, Safe Communities campaign launched in 2013 to advocate that youth be treated more fairly in Oregon’s criminal justice system.
December 20, 2012

The diminishing influence of tough-on-crime political rhetoric

The landscape around criminal justice and public safety issues is changing. We all want to live in safe communities. The question becomes, how do we best address crime and maintain safety.
November 23, 2012

Incarceration is not health care; police are not physicians

What PPB policies will not change are the problems at the root of how our society deals with mental health.
September 25, 2012

Oregonians with felonies — you can vote! (and why you should)

Your vote is your voice. When we vote, we are actually telling elected officials and lawmakers how we feel about education, public safety, social security, health care and other important issues.
June 27, 2012

Oregon Out of Balance

A collaboration with Call to Safety (formerly the Portland Women’s Crisis Line) and Oregon Coalition against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
June 19, 2012

Momentum building for public safety reform in Oregon

We are really tired of having to choose between funding our prisons and educating our children — and when K-12 class sizes grow right along with prisons, we’ve made those choices.
August 12, 2011

Measure 11’s devastating effect on Oregon’s next generation

Very little is known about how Measure 11 is actually implemented, especially with regard to youths.
June 17, 2011

Shackled by old laws, Oregon’s budget is locked in its prisons

Oregon’s prison problem has not yet reached the extreme crisis level of California, but Oregon’s ever-increasing prison growth and spending should not be dismissed.
April 26, 2011

Measure 11’s failing scorecard fans sparks of reform

But many advocates argue the Justice Commission’s report debunks that argument for Measure 11 in its entirety.
March 8, 2011

Moving Beyond Sides

The Power and Potential of a New Public Safety Policy Paradigm