Cop Block is a decentralized

police accountability Police accountability involves holding both individual police officers, as well as law enforcement agencies responsible for effectively delivering basic services of crime control and maintaining order, while treating individuals fairly and withi ...

project. The organization's members and volunteers attempt to draw attention to alleged or evident police abuses that happen across the United States, and work to film police to force transparency and accountability within their ranks. However, believing that accountability will never end

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, the group shifted its focus to the complete abolishment of all law enforcement.

Activities

In July 2010,

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and

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and Adam "Ademo Freeman" Mueller, key members of the organization were arrested for videotaping officials at the

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jail. The organization is known for videotaping public officials nationally, with many of the interactions ending in arrest based on an allegation that the activities violate local laws, regulations, policies or rules

civil disobedience Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a stat ...

. In October 2011, Cop Block sponsored a "National Chalk the Police Day" in fifteen cities to protest arrests of protester