law enforcement in the united states
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New Orleans’ Facial Recognition Systems Led to Exactly Zero Arrests in Nine Months
Police in New Orleans have been using facial recognition for the better part of a year, but the tech hasn’t had much of an impact on the city’s violent crime crisis. NOLA’s recently published quarterly public safety review, compiled by consulting firm Datalytics, shows that between October 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023—roughly nine months—there…
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U.S. Justice Department Admits: We Don’t Even Know How Many Predictive Policing Tools We’ve Funded
Several of the nation’s largest cities use federal tax dollars to fund the development of software promising to predict the locations of future crimes. They’ve done so for the better part of a decade. For the first time, though, the agency overseeing the distribution of that money has formally acknowledged it has little idea of…
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DEA Went Undercover to Infiltrate a Vigil for George Floyd
As students at the University of South Florida quietly sobbed during a moment of silence for George Floyd last summer, they had no idea their candlelight vigil, organised before a monument to an assassinated civil rights leader, had been infiltrated by federal agents.
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Capitol Riot Attendee Pleads Guilty to Bomb Plot Against Amazon Data Centre
A Texas man has pleaded guilty to a plot to blow up an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centre in Ashburn, Virginia, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. The 28-year-old man, an apparent supporter of former president Donald Trump, bragged about attending the January 7 insurrection at the U.S.…