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
- Weekly Update – November 25, 2022
Greetings friends! Here’s what we’ve been up to: On Sunday (11/20), LA CAN honored the Trans Day of… Read More »Weekly Update – November 25, 2022 - Yet Another LAPD Demand for a Budget Increase
LAPD has released its annual demand for a bigger budget, calling for a $119 million budget increase. - Archiving Our Fight!
This Tuesday, we’ll be offering folks a sneak peek at our archiving sights and discussing ways to archive the community’s fight and subvert the state’s archiving model. - Weekly Update – November 18, 2022Check out what we’ve been up to!
- Weekly Update – November 11, 2022
Here’s what we’ve been up to this week! - Abolish Social Media Surveillance
The LAPD has rapidly been growing its social media surveillance arsenal, targeting the same communities they have also targeted for criminalization, surveillance and violence.
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.
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