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THEI Eyeballs: CIA Financed Palantir and their computer “predictive policing tool”

Case study of LAPD and Palantir’s predictive policing tool: same corruption; new, empirical respectability

Source: Boing Boing / Cory Doctorow / 10:13 am Fri Sep 8, 2017

UT Austin sociologist Sarah Brayne spent 2.5 years conducting field research with the LAPD as they rolled out Predpol, a software tool that is supposed to direct police to places where crime is likely to occur, but which has been shown to send cops out to overpolice brown and poor people at the expense of actual crimefighting.

Brayne observed and interviewed more than 75 cops to get a picture of how the job of policing is changed by big data-based “predictive” tools. She found that the tools changed police from a law-enforcement agency to an intelligence agency, concerned more with surveilling people who had not committed a crime than to interdicting or solving crimes in the world. . . . Read Complete Report

The LAPD propaganda about the program

Palantir at the Los Angeles Police Department

Published on Jan 25, 2013

Palantir: Welcome and Introduction

Published on Jul 15, 2013

Introduction by CEO of Palantir Dr. Alexander Karp Welcome by Vanessa Hood, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palant

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LAPD uses ‘Stingray’ for warrantless tracking of citizens (Video Report)

from youtube

Published on Jan 25, 2013

Here at RT America we have reported on how the US government and select law enforcement agencies are using the technology known as “Stingray” to track suspected terrorists every move, but according to reports, the Los Angeles Police Department is
using the technology to not only fight terrorism but to crackdown on daily crime. RT’s Ramon Galindo explores the possible violations of privacy rights.

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Fast & Furious West Coast Branch? LAPD launches probe into alleged resale of weapons by SWAT officers

While this may look like a local story  of interest only to those on the Left Coast, I assure you it’s all part of the big picture.  Those guns will end up killing other people, both innocent and guilty on BOTH sides of the border.  All in the name of tightning our gun laws. Did i just write that?  The law is stealing guns to sell to the people who are trying to kill them AND all in the name of promoting less guns in America’s citizens hands… it IS a strange world we live in! . . . EDITOR

The Los Angeles Times 

By Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times

August 24, 2012, 8:22 p.m.

The department is conducting the second investigation into allegations that officers bought specially-made handguns with an ‘LAPD SWAT’ insignia and resold them at a steep profit.

The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating whether members of its elite SWAT unit took advantage of their assignments to purchase large numbers of specially-made handguns and resell the weapons for steep profits, according to a report released Friday by the independent watchdog overseeing the department.

The allegations, if true, could be a violation of federal firearm laws and city ethics regulations. . . . Read Complete Report