As the U.S. commemorates another anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, civil liberties organizations and Muslim advocacy groups have had a lot to say about the Islamophobia of the past two decades. Islamophobia is of course a real source of violence. …
OPINION
We’re at a critical point in the cycle of police misconduct and “reform” — and we can’t afford to make the same mistakes again.
By Shakeer Rahman and Hamid Khan
On March 11, the City Council received a report commissioned last summer to “examine” the LAPD’s violence during the George Floyd uprising. The Los Angeles Times and New York Times quickly declared that this “scathing” assessment revealed the LAPD’s “mishandling” of the protest response…
Opinion
By Shakeer Rahman, Pete White, and Hamid Khan
Joe Biden returning to power in this moment is ominous. As Democrats retake the presidency, Trump devotees have shown they can supplement their harm toward Black and brown people with violent defiance of the political system. …
Two Faces of State Violence — Murder by Law Enforcement and Medical Apartheid
By Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
The United States’ state-sanctioned violence is responsible for the protests we see today. This violence is institutionalized through racist ideas, such as anti-black racism, and practices such as policing, militarism, and surveillance…
Tech Companies’ Complicity in State Violence Runs Deep
By the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition & Free Radicals
In the wake of nationwide rebellions against police violence, tech companies and their workers are claiming to be in solidarity with the Black community by “pausing” the development of surveillance technologies. Some employees…
Policing Technology Will Not Solve the Pandemic
PredPol Inc. Exploits Pandemic for Profit
By the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and Free Radicals
As COVID-19 continues to take its toll, we find ourselves desperate for ways to mitigate disaster. Using this desperation as an opportunity, various entities in the tech industry…
The Algorithmic Ecology: An Abolitionist Tool for Organizing Against Algorithms
By the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and Free Radicals
In an increasingly policed and surveilled world, algorithms have become critical sites of power, struggle and resistance. By telling the story of our fight against Predpol, a predictive policing technology, we…
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Wins Groundbreaking Public Records Lawsuit
The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition recently won a groundbreaking public records lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) demanding documents on the LAPD’s LASER (Los Angeles Strategic Extraction and Restoration) and Chronic Offender program. …
By Los Angeles Community Action Network & Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
The Vera Institute of Justice has recently inserted itself into the movement for pretrial reform in Los Angeles, the county with the largest jail system in the US, if not the world. How Los Angeles County addresses pretrial reform…
