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.
We hold open community meetings on zoom every Tuesday at 6pm.
These are the online version of the meetings we used to have every Tuesday night in the Freedom Room at LA CAN in Skid Row. This week’s meeting is:
To watch past webinars, visit our YouTube. To see our other upcoming meetings, visit our Calendar.
What We’ve Been Working On
- COALITION ACTIVITIES—November 21, 2021
Dear Friends, this week the Coalition held three teach-ins on our new report – Automating Banishment: The Surveillance … Continue reading COALITION ACTIVITIES—November 21, 2021 - COALITION ACTIVITIES—November 14th, 2021Dear Friends, this week the Coalition finally released our report, AUTOMATING BANISHMENT: The Surveillance and Policing of Looted Lands! The … Continue reading COALITION ACTIVITIES—November 14th, 2021
- AUTOMATING BANISHMENT: The Surveillance and Policing of Looted Land
Read Automating Banishment: The Surveillance and Policing of Looted Land, our new community-based report on the relationships between … Continue reading AUTOMATING BANISHMENT: The Surveillance and Policing of Looted Land - COALITION ACTIVITIES—November 7th, 2021
Dear Friends, this week, the Gender and Sexuality Working Group made space for the loved ones we’ve lost, … Continue reading COALITION ACTIVITIES—November 7th, 2021 - Data-Driven Policing: Abolition Requires a Culture of Resistance
Read our new article in Issue 35 of The Abolitionist, Critical Resistance‘s “publication dedicated to the strategy and … Continue reading Data-Driven Policing: Abolition Requires a Culture of Resistance - ZINE: LAPD’s Budget Creep
LAPD’s Budget Creep is a new zine we made over the past year in our Defund Surveillance campaign … Continue reading ZINE: LAPD’s Budget Creep
Our Research and Resources
Automating Banishment, our 2021 community-based report on the relationship of “data-driven” policing to real estate developent, displacement, settler colonialism, police reform, and counter-insurgency
Defund Surveillance, our campaign to dissect and defund LAPD’s $3.1 billion yearly budget
The Stalker State, an interactive journey through the architecture police use to control us
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
