Reports

Communities United for Police Reform has been instrumental in the production, data collection, and release of several reports, including:

Police Sexual Violence Report (2025)

The Police Sexual Violence Report is the most comprehensive study of its kind on police sexual violence in New York City and exposes the pervasive nature of the police sexual violence crisis in New York City.

This report was led by CPR grassroots members, in coordination with the Public Science Project at the CUNY Graduate Center, and its are the result of community town hall meetings, a survey administered to over 3,700 New Yorkers in all five boroughs of the city, and thirty-seven in-depth semi-structured interviews with New Yorkers who have experienced police gender-based and sexual violence.

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We Deserve to Be Safe Report (2024)

The We Deserve To Be Safe Report is one of the largest studies ever conducted on how people in heavily policed communities in New York City experience and understand safety and recommendations on how we can transform the city’s approach to public safety.  

This powerful report is the result of over a four-year-long participatory research project that was led by CPR grassroots members, in coordination with the Public Science Project at the CUNY Graduate Center, and supported by dozens of CPR members and partner organizations. Through community town halls and neighborhood-based surveys, we engaged over 3,300 New Yorkers about their experiences with policing, crisis response and NYC safety programs and infrastructure, as well as their ideas for what a transformed vision for community safety could and should look like for all New Yorkers.

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2021 NYPD Budget Report (2021)

In the spring of 2020, CPR members and partners launched a campaign to significantly cut the NYPD budget so that necessary monies could be redirected to Black, Latinx and other communities of color. The backdrop was the COVID-19 pandemic that had starkly revealed and exacerbated every measure of inequality in New York City. But the underlying reality was that basic infrastructure and programs have been defunded in low-income Black, Latinx and other communities of color for decades – while the NYPD and the budget, size, scope, and power of policing continue to grow.

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