The website includes a search bar where users can type in an LAPD officer’s name or serial number, which is an employee number and different from a badge number, to get the information. “How many times do we go and get in contact with (other) public employees? But cops are a community that for whatever reason, we probably would have the most contact.” “LAPD officers … will have probably the most contact with the community,” Khan said. The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition launched a database on Friday, March 17, that makes Los Angeles police officers’ information publicly available in an attempt to hold them accountable, the advocacy group says.Ĭalled Watch the Watchers, the database provides officers’ headshots, names, hire dates, ranks and ethnicities compiled by volunteers with public-records requests, said Hamid Khan, a full-time organizer with the coalition.