Cop Watch LA and the South Central Farm (Trainning and Report)

Cop Watch Los Angeles and the South Central Farm



Cop Watch LA will be having a training today, Wed May 31st for the South Central Farm and supporters who are doing security for the farm.

This will be a crash course on how to observe the police, the politics and the necessity or organizing to watch the police, and some of the basic laws you need to know when you’re out there patrolling your community and observing the police carrying out their business as usual (harassing and brutalizing people).

We were asked to help with the security and give some basic training to people who don’t have any experience dealing with the police in an organized way.

In the training we’ll go over:

-Discussion and Presentation on the role of the police and who and what is Cop Watch LA

-Different tactics to observe and organize your community to watch the police

-Different experiences we have with the police and organizing neighborhood watches

-Some of the basic laws we need to know when we’re doing security and patrols (and the vagueness of these laws – which can go either way for us)

-Doing Security and patrols at the Farm

Tomorrow Wednesday May 31st at the South Central Farm at 8pm



Cop Watch LA supports the 350 families of the South Central Farm. We oppose the gentrification of oppressed communities, where working class people of color are being run out to make way for corporations and rich white folks. We’re tying into this struggle as an independent organization, committed to being part of the process of building autonomy, self-determination, and the self-organization of our communities.



Cop Watch LA Report on the Farm:

Police helicopters are now seen more than once a day. Police presence and patrolling has been consistent around the farm. The Sheriffs, LAPD, and even federal police, seem to all be in communication with each other and are coordinating with each other.

There have been federal police patrolling the train tracks in their SUV’s. Cop Watch confronted them, and they said that they were only there to protect the train tacks and the trains, but they knew a great deal about the farm.

Sheriffs attempted to enter the farm last week, with a cheap offer to buy the farmers more time by allowing themselves in to check out the farm (the people camping inside the farm, and how many people were there). At this point we should stand our ground, any law agency is not to be trusted (they are only upholding the interests of rich land owners like Ralph Horrowitz, and sell out politicians like Antonio Villaraigosa).