Area Crime and Community Intelligence Center (ACCIC)

Area Crime and Community Intelligence Centers (ACCICs) were introduced in April 2020 as part of LAPD’s Data-Informed Community-Focused Policing (DICFP) initiative. ACCICs are a rebranding of LAPD’s Area Crime Analysis Details (CADs), which were units established in July 1990 within each of LAPD’s areas and special divisions.

The purpose of the CAD—the original ACCIC—was to act as a center for crime information and analysis and to provide information for local area patrols and tactical action plans, as well as to be part of the FASTRAC (Focused Accountability, Strategy, Teamwork, Response, and Coordination) process - FASTRAC was a precursor to Compstat. Part of the CAD’s crime analysis included identification of emerging crime trends, correlating “suspects” with “crimes”, and developing profiles on people deemed to be suspects.

When LAPD’s Predictive Policing program Operation LASER was forced to disband, the program’s local area Crime Intelligence Analyst units were rebranded, to be named ACCICs. ACCICs are considered the “hub for information and intelligence sharing” between LAPD divisions and outside law police agencies.

Each LAPD division has an ACCIC to identify and monitor “Neighborhood Engagement Areas” (see Neighborhood Engagement Areas (NEAs)) for 1 year while LAPD SLOs (Senior Lead Officers) create “Scanning, Analysis, Response, Assessment” (see S.A.R.A. or SARA (Scanning, Analysis, Response, Assessment)) investigations and reports in the areas.

This diagram highlights the related roles of community engagement, ACCICs, ‣, Compstat, and more in LAPD’s policing process. Source: LAPD’s guidebook “Data-Informed Community Focused Policing in the Los Angeles Police Department” (pg 13).

These hyper-local spy garrisons produce daily mission maps, perform social media monitoring (see Social media surveillance), surveillance camera video pulls, and more. ACCIC data is used by LAPD commanding officers to determine where they should increase police presence. ACCICs also engage with city officials and local residents to spy on and deputize communities, deploy violent “crime suppression” tactics, and racially profile neighborhoods.

Image description: A Violent Crime Mission Map generated by the Northeast ACCIC for June 8-15, 2020. Image source: Northeast Mission Maps from Northeast ACCIC, through a PRA that is still open and not yet published.

ACCICs use Crime Analysis Mapping Systems (CAMS), ArcGIS, Deployment Planning Systems (DPS), and other investigative systems available to LAPD like Palantir, Lexis-Nexis, CalGangs, CCHRS (Consolidated Criminal History Reporting System), and ParoleLEADS.

An internal LAPD document obtained by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition indicates that ACCICs produce daily Hot Spot Policing maps with symbols marking locations as “gang related,” “gang member - suspect,” “gang member - victim,” “transient - victim,” “transient - suspect,” and “domestic violence.” It’s hard to imagine why LAPD needs daily maps of domestic violence complaints and unhoused residents besides to speculatively criminalize neighborhoods and communities.

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In February 2024, LA City Council approved $200,000 from CD 14 to create a LAPD task force combating “Crimes against City Infrastructure.” This taskforce used ACCICs data analysis for intake and “investigative follow up.” The taskforce will present cases stemming from the taskforce specifically-assigned prosecutors from the DA and CA. The taskforce ran from February to April and its effectiveness is undetermined.