Topic: Surveillance

Before the Bullet Hits the Body: Dismantling Predictive Policing in Los Angeles

This 2018 report does not take a top-down policy reform or recommendation approach, nor does the report seek more "transparency"...

Albuquerque Police Linked to Firms That work with Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, CIA, Documents Show

A report on research by Abolish APD that details Albuquerque Police partnerships with private firms linked to neo-Nazi and white...

CCTV surveillance in the most populated cities in the United States

From monitoring traffic to preventing crime, closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras have a range of purposes. But with increasingly-high resolutions, more...

Where (To Learn): Resource Hubs to Ponder Questions You Didn’t Even Know You Had

A collection of common questions related to abolition, policing, and incarceration and links to find resources for further education and...

Independent Investigation Into the City of Philadelphia’s Response to Civil Unrest

In May, many of us were devastated and heartbroken when George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis. This marked...

Police Surveillance in Chicago (Updated)

Chicago is one of the most heavily surveilled cities in the world. Cameras, automatic license plate readers, cell site simulators...

Unmasked: Impacts of Pandemic Policing

This report was written by Pascal Emmer, Woods Ervin, Derecka Purnell, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Tiffany Wang for the COVID19...

Technologies for Liberation: Toward Abolitionist Futures

This report is based on rich interviews and engagement with movement technologists, organizers, researchers, and policy advocates about what liberation...

Abolishing the Surveillance of Families: A Report on Understanding Harm, Surveillance, & Information Sharing in the Department of Children and Family Services in Los Angeles County

Calls for reform suggesting the deployment of social workers instead of police in our communities overlook the past and present...

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