Building community power TO ABOLISH the police state
The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is a community group building power toward abolition of the police state. We were founded in 2011 and are based at the Los Angeles Community Action Network in Skid Row.
About Us
We are a community group working to build community power toward abolishing police surveillance.
GET INVOLVED
Join our work by sending us an email introducing yourself or filling out our contact form.
DONATE
Our work is largely funded through community donations. Your support is what makes our work sustainable.
We hold open community meetings every week
Our weekly Tuesday night community meetings on Zoom are a great way to get to know us. We have some archived meetings recorded and available on our YouTube. We also have a number of working groups that meet every week. To join any of our meetings, check out our calendar.
What’S COOKING
- Weekly Update 6/15
This past week, the Coalition prepped for the Board of Police Commissioner’s with folks on Monday! We drafted… Read More »Weekly Update 6/15 - WEEKLY UPDATE 06/08
This past week, the Coalition got prepared to mobilize to the Board of Police Commissioners Meeting. We met… Read More »WEEKLY UPDATE 06/08 - WEEKLY UPDATE 05/29This past week, the Coalition attended the Downtown Women’s Action Coalition’s Healing Circle on Tuesday 5/26, and we… Read More »WEEKLY UPDATE 05/29
- WEEKLY UPDATE 05/25
These are kittens in the park from our Youth Day in the Park that we held on 5/16!… Read More »WEEKLY UPDATE 05/25 - Abolish DCFS Report Pt. 1
This report maps the Information Sharing and Surveillance in the Department of Children & Family Services (DCFS) - Weekly Update 5/15This past week, the Coalition went to the Board of Police Commissioner’s meeting on Tuesday 5/12 where various… Read More »Weekly Update 5/15
Our Research and Resources
AUTOMATING BANISHMENT: THE SURVEILLANCE AND POLICING OF LOOTED LAND
Our new community-based research report on the relationships between “data-driven policing” and real estate development, displacement, settler colonialism, and conquest. The report is available with interactive maps at automatingbanishment.org.
WATCH THE WATCHERS
A copwatch tool that publishes headshot photos and other public records about LAPD officers
Architecture of Surveillance
The Architecture of Surveillance (AOS) platform is an ongoing project organized by our Data-Driven Policing Work Group. The platform contains a database of 52 articles (pages) about LAPD’s surveillance architecture, and other pages that dive deeper into histories, themes, and resources related to the architecture of surveillance.
THE ALGORITHMIC ECOLOGY
A tool for mapping the need to organize against the entire ecosystem that surrounds police algorithms, beyond the technology alone.
BEFORE THE BULLET HITS THE BODY
Our community-based report on the racist violence of LAPD’s first-generation “predictive policing” programs