The IIP launched the Toolkit in partnership with family members, prosecutors, and law enforcement experts in February 2019.

Victoria Davis, the sister of Delrawn Small and a member of the Justice Committee, outlines her goals for the Toolkit.

The human narratives underpinning the Toolkit were uplifted in an Executive Session paper, authored by Roy L. Austin, Jr., Valerie Bell, and John Choi, with a foreword from Chief of Police J. Scott Thomson and interviews by Allison Goldberg.

Members of the IIP’s Working Group were invited to testify at Congressional Black Caucus hearing on police use-of-force in May 2019, and at a statewide hearing in Minnesota in August 2019.

“Would You Trust the Police Officer Who Writes ‘It’s a Good Day for a Chokehold’?” ask Chiraag Bains and Kyle C. Barry in a July 2019 New York Times op-ed that cites the Toolkit as a resource for prosecutors and communities.

Interested in adopting the Toolkit? Write to us at IIP_JohnJay@prosecution.org