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Policed by LAPD's notorious Central Division, the Skid Row neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles is where the city has long tested new forms of policing, surveillance, criminalization, neglect, and abandonment. This makes the empowerment and liberation of Skid Row residents crucial in the broader fight to abolish these systems everywhere.

Starting in the mid 2000s, LAPD launched a series of data-driven policing programs that over time combined “broken windows” policing, community policing, and predictive policing. Skid Row was the first target of these experiments, with the launch of the Safer Cities Initiative (SCI) "broken windows" initiative in 2006.

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