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
- Help us identify all UCLA police!
The University of California, Los Angeles, is deeply complicit in the police state, generating research, political cover, and… Read More »Help us identify all UCLA police! - Gender & Sexuality
Join us this Tuesday at 6:00 pm for our monthly meeting on the policing of gender and sexuality, in person at Los Angeles Community Action Network. - WEEKLY UPDATE – May 3, 2024
Check out what we’ve been up to - WEEKLY UPDATE – April 26, 2024
Check out what we’ve been up to! - Accenture and LA
Accenture has long been involved in the world of police surveillance technology, facilitating oppressive violence in locations such as the US, India, and the Zionist State. In a recent expansion of the surveillance state, Accenture has now contracted with Los Angeles County. Learn more about Accenture and how to fight back against their contract with LA County by reading our zine, ‘Accenture and LA. - Data Driven PolicingCommunity Meeting – Tuesday 4/23/24 – 6:00pm Join us this Tuesday at 6:00 pm for our monthly data… Read More »Data Driven Policing
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