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Many months before the explosive revelations of widespread spying were made public by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the Guardian newspaper, a local coalition of activists here in Los Angeles was blowing the whistle on the spying tactics of the Los Angeles Police Department.

The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition has helped bring to light the LAPD’s use of so-called Fusion Centers to share intelligence from federal agencies, as well as what is known as Special Order 1 and “Suspicious Activity
Reporting.”

Recently we also covered revelations made public by the ACLU of how police departments nationwide including here in Los Angeles have deployed digital technology to monitor, identify, and record the movements of vehicles all over a city.

Apparently that’s not all. The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and others have discovered the LAPD’s use of a technology called Stingray devices which, to phone carriers, mimic cell phone towers, enabling police to secretly intercept each and every call in its immediate vicinity without the use of a warrant or permission from the phone carrier.

GUEST: Hamid Khan, Organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition

Visit www.stoplapdspying.org for more information or send an email to stoplapdspying@gmail.com.