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The following letter -- "Boycott collaboration with police" -- was sent to the Notices of the American Mathematical Society on 15 June 2020 and has now been published here. Here is the list of signatories (pdf) as of 28 September 2020. Media coverage of the letter: - Nature. - Inside Higher Ed. - Deutschlandfunk. - U. Washington Daily. - Popular Mechanics. - Salon. - New Hampshire Union Leader. - Daily Kos. - Collectif oppose a brutalite policiere. The letter: To the Mathematics Community, In light of the extrajudicial murders by police of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and numerous others before them, and the subsequent brutality of the police response to protests, we call on the mathematics community to boycott working with police departments. This is not an abstract call. Many of our colleagues can and do work with police departments to provide modeling and data work. For example, ICERM sponsored a workshop on Predictive Policing (https://icerm.brown.edu/topical_w

The following letter -- "Boycott collaboration with police" -- was sent to the Notices of the American Mathematical Society on 15 June 2020 and has now been published here. Update (April 18 2025): the list of over 1500 signatories, last updated in September 2020, is currently invisible because the maintainers of this website have determined that the signatories chose to add their names based on an assessment of the risks and benefits that is likely to have changed in many cases, so the list has been removed until we are able to secure consent from individual signatories to continue to publiciz

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