Op-Ed: One way to shrink the LAPD's budget: Cut costly and invasive big-data policing (via latimesopinion)
, including tanks and helicopters, riot gear and noxious gas, police have used against the protesters. Less obvious, but not necessarily less costly or dangerous, is the invisible military surveillance software in law enforcement’s arsenal.
Over the last seven years, I observed this while studying how the LAPD uses big data and surveillance technologies. I interviewed officers, shadowed crime analysts and rode in police cruisers to see what data-driven policing looks like in real time. It was a revelation to see how much information police officers could access with the click of a mouse., the CIA-backed Silicon Valley start-up valued at $20 billion that has confidentially filed with U.S. regulators to go public.
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