Property, Personhood, and Police: Counter-Mapping Nuisance from Louisville to Los Angeles

Thinking, organizing, and mapping from Louisville, Kentucky and Los Angeles, California, this event explores how the policing of nuisance has become a tool for neighborhood transformation and racial banishment. As documented by the Root Cause Research Center, the death of Breonna Taylor in March 2020 was linked to a neighborhood policing program used to declare nuisance properties in Louisville’s gentrifying neighborhoods. In Los Angeles, the Citywide Nuisance Abatement Program (CNAP) has similarly been used as a tool for redevelopment as well as a means to increase surveillance in the city’s communities of color.

• Josh Poe, Root Cause Research Center
• Jessica Bellamy, Root Cause Research Center
• Terra Graziani, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy and Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP)
• Pamela Stephens, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy

• Ananya Roy, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy