The “City Police Map”, a web platform to identify situations of institutional violence in the district, will be presented to the local Legislature and will be available to citizens with information on agents, entities and police stations that operate in the Buenos Aires area.
The activity will take place this Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. in the Golden Hall of the Buenos Aires Legislature, on Peru 160, as an initiative of the legislator of the Frente de Todos Ofelia Fernández, based on a proposal from different organizations, such as the Center for Legal Studies and Social (CELS), the Political Research Team (EDiPo), the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE) and the popular outlet Grito del Sur.
As anticipated, the platform will have a space to denounce acts of police abuse and with recommendations on how to deal with arrests or repression, violence towards migrants or workers in the public spaceamong other situations.
On the website you will be able to access information on agents, entities and police stations that act within the City, as well as a chapter with unpublished investigations on the origin of the force in the City and its actions in the Buenos Aires territory.
“The Map is a modern tool for building citizenship, which contributes to making cases of police violence more visible and faster, trying to identify those responsible and empowering the victims,” said Fernandez’s team.
And they added that “it is aimed at promoting the human rights of all the people who live in the City of Buenos Aires.”
From the Political Research Team, for its part, they considered that it is “an important advance in relation to the right to information, a fundamental dimension when it comes to making contemporary democracy substantive, information being the main resource of power in the today, that is why their socialization is key”.
In this sense, from CELS they highlighted that “although the City Police is a relatively new force and in many aspects modern and with new technologies, keep dragging many opacity logics that need this type of tools to make them visible“.
On the other hand, they pointed out that “Police officers like the one from Buenos Aires, with such a wide territorial deployment, cannot be controlled only from the State, but citizen control is also necessary, something that this initiative seeks to promote.”
➡️The City Police Map is launched
Together with other social, political and cultural organizations and @OfeFernandez_ We join this citizen participation initiative against institutional violence.
?https://t.co/09eV4mkuw1— CELS (@CELS_Argentina) July 11, 2022
Deputy Fernández, for her part, expressed on her social networks that: “The map is a fundamental tool to think of another way of accessing information and citizen organization, not only to confront police violence but to democratize and rethink who inhabits the city and with what rights“.
