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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLAPD has new surveillance formula - identifies "probable offenders"
https://injusticetoday.com/the-lapd-has-a-new-surveillance-formula-powered-by-palantir-1e277a95762aLos Angeles Police Department analysts are each tasked with maintaining a minimum of a dozen ongoing surveillance targets for future targeting, using Palantir software and an updated probable offender formula, according to October 2017 documents, obtained through a public records request lawsuit by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and given exclusively to In Justice Today.
These surveillance reports identify probable offenders in select neighborhoods, based on an LAPD point-based predictive policing formula. Analysts find information for their reports using Palantir software, which culls data from police records, including field interview cards and arrest reports, according to an updated LAPD checklist formula, which uses broader criteria than the past risk formula the department was known to have used. These reports, known as Chronic Offender Bulletins, predate Palantirs involvement with the LAPD, but since the LAPD began using the companys data-mining software in September 2011, the department claims that bulletins that would have taken an hour to compile now take about five minutes.
Los Angeles police argue that targeting chronic offenders in this manner helps lower crime rates while being minimally invasive. But the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a community-based alliance that has advocated against increased LAPD surveillance efforts since 2012, paints a different picture of the Chronic Offender Bulletin program. The group calls it a racist feedback loop in which police surveil a set number of people based on data thats generated by their own racially biased policing, creating more monitoring and thereby more arrests.
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Legal scholars have noted that the institutionalization of risk formulas like the LAPDs Chronic Offender program checklist can exacerbate existing patterns of discrimination by oversampling those already discriminated against, generating even more biased data that justifies further discrimination.
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LAPD has new surveillance formula - identifies "probable offenders" (Original Post)
gollygee
May 2018
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CincyDem
(6,363 posts)1. Minority Report comes to life with the pre-cognition department.
They know you're going to commit a crime before you've even thought of it.
Thank you Philip K Dick for showing us the future.
Exotica
(1,461 posts)2. Beat me to it!
Skål!
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)3. That is scary.
The whole thing assumed there is no targeting of certain racial and ethnic groups going on now.