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British Cops Bought Marketing Data To Help Profile Criminal Suspects
Police in the United Kingdom are partnering with credit reporting agencies to predict whether criminals will reoffend, a report from UK civil liberties group Big Brother Watch has uncovered.
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A Spy Plane That Surveilled An Entire City For Police Is Now Being Promoted As Way To Monitor Cops
Less than two years after an aerial surveillance company was caught using a spy plane to record the entire city of Baltimore for police, the so-called “eye-in-the-sky” system is being pitched to the city with a new angle: catching corrupt cops.
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The Solution To Homelessness Won’t Be Robot Cops
A San Francisco animal shelter is under fire for using a security robot, dubbed K9, to push out homeless people encamped nearby. America’s disruption capital, San Francisco, has both a crippling housing crisis and an abundance of startups using automated robots for everything from delivering sandwiches to deterring crime.
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Following ‘Faked’ Footage Scandal, Baltimore Moves To Restrict Public Access To Body Cam Footage
Two members of Baltimore’s County Council have introduced a new resolution to tighten public access to body camera footage. The measure, introduced by Republican councilmen Todd Crandell and Wade Kach, comes after dozens of criminal cases were dropped in Baltimore following the release of camera footage that seemingly uncovered officer misconduct.