The IACP brings together law enforcement agencies from around the world to "advance the science and art of police services." Central to the conference's agenda is to share and develop the latest strategies for managing dissent and putting a friendly face on police terror and control. The conference's presentations on issues such as "diversity in hiring," "trust and accountability," and, above all, "community policing," will be led by those who engineered some of the most notoriously brutal policing of the past year — including the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, who repressed the rebellion at Standing Rock; the DC police chief, who gave orders to kettle J20 protesters in January; and the Chief of Pasco, WA's police department, who will be doing a presentation on how his department maintained stability and "public trust" after officers murdered Antonio Zambrano-Montes. Border Patrol and the FBI will also be present.
Organizations and individuals will be mobilizing in mass demonstrations and have called for decentralized, autonomous actions throughout the weekend to oppose this gathering, and we need your help! Any funds you can give will go towards bail in the event of arrests that weekend, and it's crucial that we fundraise in advance in order to show people coming out for this mobilization that we support them.
Please donate what you can – anything you can give helps!
** All funds not used for bail during the IACP conference will be donated to the Philly Anti-Repression Fund to support future arrestees. **
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