Why are black women’s experiences missing from official and unofficial accounts of police violence? Drawing on in-depth interviews with black women about their encounters and attempts to report and inform others, this talk discusses their searches for recognition of their violent encounters with police and other people in their lives. In doing so, I argue that officers and communities engage in often invisible forms of everyday policing that render black women’s stories missing from official data, headlines, and community conversations. Importantly, I focus on how black women counter everyday policing through gathering, an alternative process that links the sharing of stories and the co-creation of knowledge with the everyday work toward safety and alternative world-making.