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The Architecture of Surveillance is not unique to Los Angeles, nor is it bound by city borders. But the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition developed the Architecture of Surveillance framework through years of community research and organizing against LAPD’s targeting of communities of color, immigrants, and poor folks in specific neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

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Targeting LA Neighborhoods

Learn about how the LAPD has tested surveillance and targeted communities in these neighborhoods:

Skid Row

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LAPD Abuse and Counter-Insurgency

• A History of LAPD Domestic, Sexual, and Child Abuse
• A Chief-by-Chief History of LAPD “Community Policing” and Counter-Insurgency

Organizing Against the Police State

The Coalition Archive, an “an/archive” of ongoing community resistance, traces stories of Coalition fights spread across a body of documents:

• Academic Complicity in Data-Driven Policing
• Dismantling Predictive Policing in Los Angeles

LAPD Surveillance Expanding Over Time

The below timeline view of the Architecture of Surveillance database allows you to click or drag, backwards or forwards, in time to see when LAPD started using various aspects of surveillance architecture. Within the timeline, after the page name, you can see the LAPD use status and (if applicable) the date LAPD stopped use.

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