Research
Twenty-five years after the killing of Timothy Thomas sparked a citywide reckoning with police accountability in Cincinnati, a new Campaign Zero analysis reveals that racially biased policing has not only persisted — it has deepened. Drawing on over 472,000 police contact cards filed between 2009 and 2025, our report Contact Cards in Cincinnati documents what…
News Updates
From Palantir’s data fusion to Clearview’s face scraping and Flock’s license-plate dragnets, a handful of private vendors now underpin everyday policing—and ICE’s deportation machine. Sold as “public safety,” these tools supercharge surveillance, stitch together vast personal data, and evade democratic oversight. Here’s what they are, who profits, and how we can shrink police reliance on them.
News Press Release
AURORA, Colo. — Campaign Zero today joined the public calls to immediately release the body-worn camera footage of the fatal shooting of U.S. Army veteran Kory Dillard by Aurora police officers. Dillard, a 37-year-old father, was shot outside his apartment on October 3rd after officers mistook his airsoft toy rifle for a real firearm. According to Aurora Police…
Campaign
Campaign Zero and Physicians for Human Rights are targeting the unscientific and misused term “excited delirium,” often cited in cases of police custody deaths and excessive force, emphasizing its lack of medical validity and disproportionate impact on communities of color.