LibGuides: Debate Topic: Regulating Police Misconduct: NGOs & Other Links

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GuideStar - this is a good way of investigating nonprofits. You can look at their financial records as well as their board membership.

Charity Navigator is a similar product.

Non-Government

National Police Accountability Project
a non-profit membership organization of plaintiff's lawyers, law students and legal workers dedicated to ending police abuse of authority through coordinated legal action, public education, and support for grassroots and victims' organizations combating police misconduct.
ACLU - Reforming Police Practices
"Ultimately, our efforts are intended to address the longstanding adversarial relationship between police and communities and to help create police departments that work collaboratively and democratically with all of the communities they serve, increasing transparency, accountability, fairness, and public safety."
Policemisconduct.net
Supported by the Cato Institute (libertartian) - "The purpose of this project is to gather reports of credible allegations of police misconduct so policymakers (and others) can make informed assessments of the nature and circumstances of police misconduct, and consider proposals that can minimize wrongdoing."
The Appeal
"produce original journalism about criminal justice that engages the public and holds officials to account."
The Marshall Project
"a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system."
American Bar Association

The usual suspects: below are a few of the larger think tanks of various philosophical persuasions that seem to have a position on just about any topic conceivable - always worth checking these sites to see if they have a position on your debate topic.

Cato Institute (Libertarian), Brookings Institute (moderate), RAND (moderate to conservative), Heritage Foundation (conservative),Institute for Policy Studies (progressive)