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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. Those meetings are 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

Our Research and Resources

The "Automating Banishment" Report.

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

Screenshot of the Stalker State website.

The Stalker State

An interactive journey through the architecture police use to control us

Algorithmic Ecology Graph

THE ALGORITHMIC ECOLOGY

A tool for mapping the need to organize against the entire ecosystem that surrounds police algorithms, beyond the technology alone.

A Report on Dismantling Predictive Policing in Los Angeles

BEFORE THE BULLET HITS THE BODY

Our community-based report on the racist violence of LAPD’s first-generation “predictive policing” programs