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ANNOUNCING: Our #DefundSurveillance campaign w/ @stoplapdspying has been working to dissect & defund LAPD’s $3.1 billion budget. Today, we’re launching our demands focused on the extreme harm of LAPD’s spending on surveillance, tech, & community policing: http://defundsurveillance.org
DEMAND 1: Defund and disarm LAPD of all weapons and surveillance!
LAPD is the country's most murderous police force. Technology and data-mining are crucial to how LAPD targets our people. Every dollar LAPD spends on harming us could instead pay for life-affirming resources.
LAPD is the country's most murderous police force. Technology and data-mining are crucial to how LAPD targets our people. Every dollar LAPD spends on harming us could instead pay for life-affirming resources.
DEMAND 2: End all LAPD siphoning of funds and data from other city departments!
In addition to the $3.1 billion LAPD directly gets in the city budget, police also take money and data from other departments, consuming vital resources and growing the Stalker State.
In addition to the $3.1 billion LAPD directly gets in the city budget, police also take money and data from other departments, consuming vital resources and growing the Stalker State.
DEMAND 3: End all federal spending on LAPD!
LAPD gets tens of millions of dollars of federal grant money each year. This money funds LAPD’s killing and stalking of our people. City Council can reject this money and needs to do so immediately.
LAPD gets tens of millions of dollars of federal grant money each year. This money funds LAPD’s killing and stalking of our people. City Council can reject this money and needs to do so immediately.
DEMAND 4: Abolish the Community Safety Partnerships program!
CSP embeds police in our communities to surveil us and run social programs. CSP means vital resources and services are only offered through the LAPD budget, and then most of that money just pays for cops.
CSP embeds police in our communities to surveil us and run social programs. CSP means vital resources and services are only offered through the LAPD budget, and then most of that money just pays for cops.
DEMAND 5: Abolish LAPD’s propaganda units!
LAPD’s Public Communications Group includes over 40 staff responsible for constantly deceiving the public and attacking victims and critics of LAPD violence. LAPD should not be given even one dollar for propaganda and deceit.
LAPD’s Public Communications Group includes over 40 staff responsible for constantly deceiving the public and attacking victims and critics of LAPD violence. LAPD should not be given even one dollar for propaganda and deceit.
DEMAND 6: Abolish LAPD’s fraudulent oversight body!
@lapdcommission is a rubber-stamp body whose role is to legitimize whatever harm LAPD wants to pursue. Ending this body is an important first step in ending LAPD’s violence.
@lapdcommission is a rubber-stamp body whose role is to legitimize whatever harm LAPD wants to pursue. Ending this body is an important first step in ending LAPD’s violence.
DEMAND 7: End tech industry and academic complicity with LAPD!
Police violence is enabled by a range of everyday technologies. We demand that tech companies end business with LAPD and that universities stop funding research that arms LAPD with new surveillance weapons.
Police violence is enabled by a range of everyday technologies. We demand that tech companies end business with LAPD and that universities stop funding research that arms LAPD with new surveillance weapons.
LAPD knows that demands to defund them are extremely popular: a recent study commissioned by city officials showed that 62.4% of L.A. adults support proposals to “redirect some money currently going to the police budget to local programs."
Defunding is not an end goal but a long-term strategy toward abolition. Policing will harm our communities no matter how cheap it is! We need to divert money from policing toward life-affirming investments in communities.
To learn more about LAPD’s budget and for more information about our demands visit http://www.defundsurveillance.org !
