May 10Statement in Support of NYU Law Students Demanding Accountability from the NYU Policing ProjectThis is a statement in support of students at the NYU School of Law who are demanding accountability from the Policing Project, a nonprofit based on their campus that is funded by the policing technology industry to “work on ethical regulation of policing technology.” We are a community group based…10 min read
Sep 11, 2021Anti-Blackness and the National Security Police State that Civil Liberties Advocacy BuiltAs 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. But far beyond the impact on Muslim communities, we must…4 min read
Published in KNOCK·Mar 16, 2021Yet Another Police Reform Proposal Designed to Expand the LAPD’s Stalker StateWe’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…Lapd7 min read
Published in KNOCK·Jan 19, 2021Don’t Let Them Use “Domestic Terrorism” to Criminalize Our People AgainBy 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. Across the mainstream partisan spectrum, their…Biden4 min read
Published in KNOCK·Dec 14, 2020Open Letter: Reject LAPD Face RecognitionThis is an open letter to the Police Commission, which will vote in January on whether to approve LAPD’s new policy on face recognition surveillance. To add your organization or group to the letter, fill out this form. You can also send public comment to the Police Commission using this…Surveillance7 min read
Jul 22, 2020Two Faces of State Violence — Murder by Law Enforcement and Medical ApartheidTwo 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…4 min read
Jun 17, 2020Tech Companies’ Complicity in State Violence Runs DeepTech 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…6 min read
May 13, 2020Policing Technology Will Not Solve the PandemicPolicing 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…6 min read
Mar 2, 2020The Algorithmic Ecology: An Abolitionist Tool for Organizing Against AlgorithmsThe 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…14 min read
Dec 10, 2019Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Wins Groundbreaking Public Records LawsuitStop 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. The coalition filed the lawsuit in…5 min read
