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Yet Another LAPD Demand for a Budget Increase
LAPD has released its annual demand for a bigger budget, calling for a $119 million budget increase. Continue reading →
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Addressing Recent Disruptions in Our Organizing
The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition works to confront and historicize state repression. That includes programs like COINTELPRO (which stood for Counter Intelligence Program), where the state funded efforts to discredit, derail, and disrupt movement organizing led by Black, brown, Indigenous, and poor people. The history of these programs is often sensationalized, to the point where… Read More »Addressing Recent Disruptions in Our Organizing Continue reading →
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Community Letter Opposing “Community-Police Advisory Board for Technology”
Today we and over two dozen other organizations representing a wide array of communities across the city publicly rejected an LAPD proposal to establish a Community-Police Advisory Board (CPAB) over police technology. The organizations rejecting this proposal include Children’s Defense Fund California, ACLU of Southern California, Community Coalition, Youth Justice Coalition, Los Angeles Community Action… Read More »Community Letter Opposing “Community-Police Advisory Board for Technology” Continue reading →
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Lawsuit Challenging LAPD’s Refusal to Identify Echo Park Cameras
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… Read More »Lawsuit Challenging LAPD’s Refusal to Identify Echo Park Cameras Continue reading →
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Zionist Instrumentalization of the Global War on Terror
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… Read More »Zionist Instrumentalization of the Global War on Terror Continue reading →
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Letter to Mayor and City Council on LAPD’s $213 Budget Increase Proposal
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… Read More »Letter to Mayor and City Council on LAPD’s $213 Budget Increase Proposal Continue reading →
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Mayoral Candidates Vowing to Renew War on Our People
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… Read More »Mayoral Candidates Vowing to Renew War on Our People Continue reading →
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2016 AFT Letter Against FBI Don’t Be a Puppet Program
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. Continue reading →
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Another “Reform” Proposal Expanding the Police State
Last summer LAPD violently cracked down on the George Floyd rebellion, arresting over 4,000 people. Throughout history, politicians have responded to LAPD’s violence toward critics with expansions of police resources rather than addressing the community’s criticism. This same cycle of police crackdowns followed by police expansion followed the Ferguson uprising, the 1992 uprising, and the… Read More »Another “Reform” Proposal Expanding the Police State Continue reading →
