The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition has filed a new lawsuit confronting LAPD’s refusal to disclose records reflecting the location of surveillance cameras supposedly monitoring all activity in Echo Park Lake. The lawsuit can be read here. The city says these cameras were installed after LAPD’s violent assault on Echo Park Lake in March 2021. That operation … Continue reading Lawsuit Challenging LAPD’s Refusal to Identify Echo Park Cameras→
Check out our newest zine A CHIEF-BY-CHIEF HISTORY OF LAPD ”COMMUNITY POLICING” AND COUNTER-INSURGENCY to learn more about how LAPD chiefs have used community policing over the past century to deflect criticism, infiltrate our communities, and secure resources, culminating in the community policing we see today. DIGITAL PDF PRINTABLE PDF
Read our article with Palestinian Youth Movement, originally published in “The Terror Trap: The Impact of the War on Terror in Muslim Communities Since 9/11” (convened by the Coalition for Civil Freedoms, The Bridge Initiative, CAGE, the Center for Islam and Global Affairs, the Muslim Justice League, ICNA Council for Social Justice, and United Voices … Continue reading Zionist Instrumentalization of the Global War on Terror→
We are community groups writing to oppose LAPD’s pending demand for a $213 million increase to its operational spending for Fiscal Year 2022-2023. If approved, this would be LAPD’s largest ever funding increase. Last November, the Board of Police Commissioners voted to approve this spending increase barely one business day after LAPD released its 687-page … Continue reading Letter to Mayor and City Council on LAPD’s $213 Budget Increase Proposal→
STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE by Los Angeles Community Action Network and Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Mayoral candidates are starting to trot out their “public safety” proposals. While some of the rhetoric and outward dressing varies, the substance across the board all appears to be the same: vows to increase police hiring and spending at the … Continue reading Mayoral Candidates Vowing to Renew War on Our People→
Recording here. Tuesday January 11th at 6PM Join us on Tuesday January 11th at 6 PM for collective learning and power building conversation, and strategy session. Download the study guide here. The first half will be for our Fight Against the War on Youth where we will be discussing how “Countering Violent Extremism” frameworks … Continue reading PT 86: War on Youth & PT 2: Collective Learning and Power Building→
Recording for Part One is here, and meeting notes can be found here. Please join us on Tuesday December 21 at 6pm for the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition’s launch of a 6 part online series of community conversations for collective learning, analysis, sharing, and building on our report Automating Banishment: The Surveillance and Policing of … Continue reading COLLECTIVE LEARNING, ANALYSIS, AND BUILDING→
Study Guides for Automating Banishment: PART 1 – NOT A MOMENT IN TIME PART 2 – THE ARCHITECTURE OF DATA-DRIVEN POLICING PART 3 – REAL ESTATE AND CAPITALIST CRISIS PART 4 – CONTAINMENT, DEVELOPMENT, & THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM IN SKID ROW
August 2016 letter from American Federation of Teachers AFT written against the FBI’s “Don’t be a Puppet” program, which was part of the overall CVE/PVE programs.
The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is building community power toward abolition of the police state.
