Tag Archive for Law Enforcement

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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Report Reveals Wider Tracking of Mail in U.S.

Featured Image: U.S. Postal Service Emblem. Source: Wikipedia (Fair Use)

From The New York Times 

WASHINGTON — In a rare public accounting of its mass surveillance program, the United States Postal Service reported that it approved nearly 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies and its own internal inspection unit to secretly monitor the mail of Americans for use in criminal and national security investigations.

The number of requests, contained in a 2014 audit of the surveillance program by the Postal Service’s inspector general, shows that the surveillance program is more extensive than previously disclosed and that oversight protecting Americans from potential abuses is lax. . . . Read Complete Report

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) : 40 Years of Drug War Failure (Video Report)

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Published on Jan 13, 2013