The Boston Marathon Bombing Shows Why Surveillance State Doesn't Work [View all]

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One year after the Boston Marathon bombing the ACLU's Kade Crockford questions whether the surveillance practices of law enforcement and an increased militarized police force equals safer streets -

Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, where three people were killed and more than 260 people were wounded. Civil liberties groups have criticized the FBI's inability to stop last year's attacks despite investigating one of the bombers in 2011. They're also critical of how militarized the police response was to the incident.

Now joining us to discuss militarization of the police in cities like Boston is our guest, Kade Crockford. Kade is the director of the Technology for Liberty Project at the ACLU of Massachusetts, where she edits and writes for the Privacy Matters blog.

Thank you for joining us, Kade.

KADE CROCKFORD, DIR., TECHNOLOGY FOR LIBERTY PROJECT, ACLU OF MA: Thanks for having me.

DESVARIEUX: So, Kade, what are the police actually capable of doing now that they weren't capable of doing a decade ago in terms of surveillance and things like that? And can you speak specifically to the FBI's practices in Boston after the bombing? I know at the end of the day people are going to say they got their bad guy, so why does it really matter how they got their bad guy. But I know you're critical, and you call it heavy-handed. Why is that?

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