Share your story with the archive

Fill out the form below to have your account of police violence preserved and shared in the archive. Whether it occurred 40 years ago or yesterday, your story is important.

Please read the paragraphs below before completing the form,  don’t skip this. It will help you to help protect yourself. However, don’t consider this to be legal advice. We are not attorneys.

Don’t include any personal or identifying information about yourself or others, such as addresses or phone numbers in your testimony.

For copyright purposes, the content must have been created by you unless you have permission to share it. Information you provide about the content must be true. False statements that could harm a person’s reputation are libelous; accusing someone of something that is not true is slander, which might get you in legal trouble. It is best not to use actual names unless there is a public record of events you are describing. Even specifying a particular police department could put you at risk.

We will scrub all metadata from your uploaded files before posting them on the archive, this is to protect your identity and privacy.

Contribute to A People's Archive
Would you like to contribute anonymously?
Be as detailed or vague as you feel comfortable.
Choose a title for your experience, this will the the title your story is posted in the archive under.
Upload Files (Ex: photos of injuries, videos of encounters, audio of storytelling, etc.)
Maximum upload size: 516MB
All files will have metadata scrubbed before being added to the archive. Share your experiences in any form, including documents, videos, written accounts, audio, photos, and more. If your file is too large to upload, reach out to us at peoplesarchiveofpoliceviolence@gmail.com