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
- POLICING OF GENDER & SEXUALITY
Join us this Tuesday June 6th at 6pm online for our working session dedicated to abolishing the policing of gender and sexuality. - Weekly Update – June 2, 2023 –
Check out what’s cookin! - New Lawsuit Challenging LAPD Deletion of Personnel RecordsThe Stop LAPD Spying Coalition filed a public records lawsuit today challenging the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD)… Read More »New Lawsuit Challenging LAPD Deletion of Personnel Records
- DCFS Townhall
Join us on June 1st at 6pm at LA CAN to discuss our collective experiences and our new report Dividing and Conquering of Families. - Weekly Update – May 26, 2023 –
Check out what we’ve been up to! - Fight Against Data-Driven PolicingJoin us for an in-person community meeting to talk about data-driven policing and how this is currently being enacted in Los Angeles by LAPD.
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
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