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Copwatch (also Cop Watch or Cop-Watch) is a network of activist organizations, typically autonomous and focused in local areas, in the United States, Canada and Europe that observe and document police activity while looking for signs of police misconduct and police brutality. They believe that monitoring police activity on the streets is a way to prevent police brutality. Copwatch was first started in Berkeley, California, in 1990.

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  • Copwatch (also Cop Watch or Cop-Watch) is a network of activist organizations, typically autonomous and focused in local areas, in the United States, Canada and Europe that observe and document police activity while looking for signs of police misconduct and police brutality. They believe that monitoring police activity on the streets is a way to prevent police brutality. The stated goal of at least one Copwatch group is to engage in monitoring and videotaping police activity in the interest of holding the police accountable in the events involving assaults or police misconduct. They also develop theoretical and practical approaches to security and justice structures to replace the police (abolitionism). They practice an intersectional critique of capitalism and analyze crime as a consequence of social problems that cannot be fought by surveillance and punishment. Therefore, they demand social solutions especially in relation to violence in structural power relations (sexist, racist, anti-Semitic violence), an accepting drug approach as well as material security. Copwatch was first started in Berkeley, California, in 1990. (en)
  • Copwatch (o Cop Watch) es una página web de organizaciones activistas tanto en Estados Unidos como en Canadá que se encarga de observar y documentar la actividad policial para intentar evitar signos tanto de falta de ética profesional como de brutalidad policial. Creen que registrando la actividad policial en las calles es una de las formas de evitar la brutalidad policial. Copwatch se creó en 1990 en Berkeley, California. (es)
  • Copwatch est un réseau d'associations militantes au Canada, en France, aux États-Unis et au Royaume-Uni qui surveillent la police afin de dénoncer et de faire connaître les dérapages et les violences policières principalement par la collecte et la diffusion de photographies et de vidéos sur Internet. Selon elles, surveiller l'action de la police « dans les rues » est une façon de prévenir cette violence. Pour le sociologue Michaël Meyer, « l'idée est que la population et les médias ont un rôle de surveillance vis-à-vis de la police, qui doit sans cesse leur rendre des comptes ». (fr)
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  • Copwatch (o Cop Watch) es una página web de organizaciones activistas tanto en Estados Unidos como en Canadá que se encarga de observar y documentar la actividad policial para intentar evitar signos tanto de falta de ética profesional como de brutalidad policial. Creen que registrando la actividad policial en las calles es una de las formas de evitar la brutalidad policial. Copwatch se creó en 1990 en Berkeley, California. (es)
  • Copwatch est un réseau d'associations militantes au Canada, en France, aux États-Unis et au Royaume-Uni qui surveillent la police afin de dénoncer et de faire connaître les dérapages et les violences policières principalement par la collecte et la diffusion de photographies et de vidéos sur Internet. Selon elles, surveiller l'action de la police « dans les rues » est une façon de prévenir cette violence. Pour le sociologue Michaël Meyer, « l'idée est que la population et les médias ont un rôle de surveillance vis-à-vis de la police, qui doit sans cesse leur rendre des comptes ». (fr)
  • Copwatch (also Cop Watch or Cop-Watch) is a network of activist organizations, typically autonomous and focused in local areas, in the United States, Canada and Europe that observe and document police activity while looking for signs of police misconduct and police brutality. They believe that monitoring police activity on the streets is a way to prevent police brutality. Copwatch was first started in Berkeley, California, in 1990. (en)
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  • Copwatch (es)
  • Copwatch (fr)
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