1.3.2 Make informal community assets visible.

When asset mapping, include informal community assets (i.e., not just services) and rely on local knowledge to identify and label these. In reality, there are community solutions for many problems that exist; they can and should be applied and honored. Too often, when these community solutions grow from communities of color and/or groups that have been marginalized, these solutions are instead surveilled and punished inequitably. When mapping challenges, recognize communities that are heavily surveilled are over-represented in systems; do not confuse systemic involvement (e.g., arrest records) with underlying rates of behavior or crime.

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