Nicholas Shapiro is an assistant professor at UCLA’s Institute for Society and Genetics. He directs Carceral Ecologies, a multidisciplinary research group that studies the intersection of environmental issues and policing.

Nicholas Shapiro

Kate McInerny is a staff researcher with the Carceral Ecologies Lab at UCLA, where she recently earned her BA in public affairs. She also works as a digital historian for the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

Kate McInerny

Matyos Kidane is a community organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a community-based abolitionist group working to dismantle the police surveillance state. He is a 2023 MediaJustice Network Fellow and a 2023 John W. Mack Movement Fellow.

Matyos Kidane

Jacobo Pereira-Pacheco is a statistician and data scientist working with the Carceral Ecologies Lab at UCLA. He received his statistical education at UC Santa Barbara and UC Santa Cruz, where he worked in various research groups, and outside of his prior academic institutions, he worked as a data scientist in San Francisco.

Jacobo Pereira-Pacheco

State Eyes in the Sky: On the History of Helicopters in Policing

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Matyos Kidane is a community organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a community-based abolitionist group working to dismantle the police surveillance state. He is a 2023 MediaJustice Network Fellow and a 2023 John W. Mack Movement Fellow.

Matyos Kidane

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State Eyes in the Sky: On the History of Helicopters in Policing