This is What
Police Tech Looks Like
This is What Police Tech Looks Like aims to understand how the implementation of data-driven policing touches the daily lives of racialised and marginalised groups. To unpack the exact nature and consequences of the trend towards more data-driven policing, we connect police monitoring projects, digital rights groups and those scrutinising surveillance tech across Europe to share insights, findings and analysis.
At This is What Police Tech Looks Like convenings, local examples of harms inflicted upon racialised communities by the use of new forms of surveillance and control are shared. Such inquiries help to gain crucial insights from the ground to inform strategies contestation and community resilience. Furthermore, stories of how implementation works out in real life are needed to challenge mainstream assumptions about racialised criminalisation and industry lead tech narratives.
Refusing Control:
Stories of Organising
As the push-back against data-driven technologies is growing, there is great potential to learn from each other – across allies, across movements and across moments in history.
With Refusing Control we want to recognise and uplift efforts of organising and movement building. During our in-person community exchanges, organisers can share strategies of on the ground organising and advocacy.
Sharing stories of organising from different contexts, places struggles side by side and makes our organising visible to one another. This not only inspires future action, but also surfaces our connected experiences and broadens our scope of what is possible.
Please get in touch if your work touches upon these issues!
Whether you are an organiser or researcher around data-driven tech, policing or discrimination, or you are working to document harms or to collect organising stories, we would be happy to connect.