Pasco's sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens.

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From https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sheriff-targeted/intelligence-led-policing/

Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens.

It monitors and harasses families across the county.

Targeted

By KATHLEEN McGRORY and NEIL BEDI
Photos by DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD
Times staff
Sept. 3, 2020

Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened.

What he actually built was a system to continuously monitor and harass Pasco County residents, a Tampa Bay Times investigation has found.

First the Sheriff’s Office generates lists of people it considers likely to break the law, based on arrest histories, unspecified intelligence and arbitrary decisions by police analysts.

Then it sends deputies to find and interrogate anyone whose name appears, often without probable cause, a search warrant or evidence of a specific crime.

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[Zoonart]

1. Somebody has watched Minority Report too many times.

Harassment and shakedown is what this is.

[3Hotdogs]

4. Also close, but not as clearly connected, Person of Interest.

[sop]

2. Another form of profiling.

[soryang]

3. This is outrageous

based on the "intel" personnel they are using and the pattern of harassment of people in "networks," that they claim they get from analysis of standard documentation, it sounds like they may be using illegal methods to track communications by targets. Several years ago it was more or less known that police fusion centers were doing this, but then ostensibly the practice stopped because it was illegal. I have my doubts. The AI algorithms they use are error prone, and often result in mistreatment of the subjects of their rigid criteria. This is true whether used by government or private organizations.

"He later said the approach was not unlike the way the federal government goes after terrorists."

In fact, it may be identical.

[Javaman]

5. Minority report

Philip K. Dick was way ahead of his time

[The Mouth]

6. It would be fun to hack into that list

and put the names of all Trump donors on it.

[steve2470]

7. shades of Stalin's dream nt