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
- The Fight Ahead
Join us for the first community meeting of 2023! This Tuesday we look at the fight ahead for the War on Youth Working group. Some things have changed in the new year, but the state’s mission to target and criminalize youth remains. - Abolitionist Curriculum Development: Curriculum for the YouthThis month we will be sharing the curriculum we developed while working with 1st-4th graders at STEM to the Future’s Freedom Summer Camp, earlier this year.
- Weekly Update – December 10, 2022
Greetings friends, welcome to the last weekly update of 2022! We’re so grateful you’ve followed along with our… Read More »Weekly Update – December 10, 2022 - Policing of Gender & Sexuality
Join us for our first Tuesday of the month webinar on the Policing of Gender and Sexuality! - Weekly Update – December 2, 2022Check out what we’ve been up to!
- Weekly Update – November 25, 2022Greetings 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
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