I started volunteering for the Council on American Islamic Relations, and working with them I started learning even more about how the government was surveilling our communities. I actually started working with them part-time in college and there was a leak at Camp Pendleton of...
Part of the reason that this work is so hard is...
What you need to do is attack its legitimacy, because what it's trying to do is use science to legitimize something that has been created—I almost beg to say is almost a lie, like a fabricated lie—that policing is something that is a natural phenomenon....
There's a lot of people who do research on Black families and speak for Black families and it's like, you have a degree of separation [and] you think you can just separate the research from your personal life and you probably can, because you have...
They have contracts with folks that are monitoring social media content and we know that has actually been going on for some time now. Prior to that, it was not technology. It was just individuals. School resource officers that were surveilling our students and their...
[I]t's like every time we need something as a community… if our community is a food desert, and we want grocery stores, what do we get? Policing. Surveillance. We need housing. We need places to live. And all this gentrification. What do we get? Policing...
[Original illustration and credit for Coda Story: Aigerim Ismagulova] Police stations across the United States increasingly rely on gunshot detection technology, extolling its virtues under the guise of increased safety and quicker, more predictive responses to “crime.” However, in-depth investigation reveals this technology functions as an...
I find the privacy frame as an approach to only challenging intrusions by technology has also help put us in this position where we don't have laws that actually grapple with the diversity of the people in our society and how technology affects them differently. —Rashida...
Image Credit: Ruha Benjamin (website) This past July, Dr. Dorothy Roberts and Dr. Ruha Benjamin participated in Policing without the police: Race, Technology, and the New Jim Code, an online talk facilitated by Haymarket Books. The two scholars spoke about their work and the current moment...
[Cover photo credit: Mir Suhail ] Can you tell me about the oral history project at Roosevelt island- how it got started, what are the desired outcomes? So in response to all kinds like a racist debate on an online parent network, I did a public screening...
