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Recommended Action Steps Divest * Redistribute law enforcement funding to social services and structures to address social inequity ("meet human need" through, for example, jobs, housing, transportation, education, healthcare, youth programs). * Reverse militarization of local, tribal, regional and federal law enforcement; disuse military equipment, discontinue military equipment acquisitions and SWAT teams and deployments. Decriminalize Decriminalize activities "designed to control marginalized people, including, but not limited to substance use and possession, sex work, loitering, sleeping in public, minor traffic violations (e.g. expired registrations, jaywalking, not signaling a lane change, broken taillights), and targeting undocumented immigrants; and to also ensure that decriminalized offenses are removed from the purview of law enforcement:' * Review and eliminate policies that lead to disproportionate violence against specific communities (e.g. stop and frisk). Invest * Prioritize programs that do not criminalize people, such as transformative justice, restorative justice, violence and mental health intervention, prevention and support programming and policies. End law enforcement impunity, demand transparency * Prioritize documentation, data reporting and collecting information by public health �y O bodies and institutions about the violence of law enforcement. 41 End laws shielding law enforcement from investigation and public information disclosure or access. Demand full public disclosure of police violence investigations through a public database, for example. Organize! Strategies and Tactics Starter List What follows is a starter list of strategies and tactics to bring the power of this policy statement to bear in your campaigns. Put this statement to use! You can... * Advocate at decision -maker meetings. "The American Public Health Association has identified law enforcement as a public health issue... It recommends that instead of policing approaches which exacerbate systemic harms, we/you must..:' * Use it to get a special health hearing on your community concern or campaign topic. Ask /recommend/ demand that a statement author be invited to provide expert testimony. (Go to www.endingpoliceviolence. com/contact-us to contact) * Refer to the policy statement in media work on your campaign or issue. Quote the text, supporting research, and recommendations, and name it as a source of national expertise in public health to be followed. * Use it to outreach to health workers, public health workers or figures, social service folks, groups and institutions to show that this is our shared issue. Share recent victories that demonstrate these overlaps, and invite them to join the local, regional, national movement work.