PD program in Minnesota that gave drugs to people & dropped them at Occupy is in 48 states.

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2. Might depend on the demographics.

Mapping the FBI: Documents Show Widespread Racial and Religious Profiling by Government
10/21/2011

Yesterday, the ACLU unveiled a new initiative — Mapping the FBI — that exposes the ways in which vastly expanded FBI investigative authority has resulted in the unconstitutional investigation of American communities and individuals based on who they are and what they believe.

Through Freedom of Information Act requests in 31 states and Washington, D.C. (enforced by lawsuits in Michigan, New Jersey and California), ACLU and its affiliates uncovered and analyzed thousands of FBI documents. These documents reveal that the FBI is gathering intelligence on and mapping communities based on the association of a certain race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion with the propensity to commit various crimes.

In response, the FBI issued a statement claiming that its activities are "intended to address specific threats, not particular communities" and to "better understand the communities that are potential victims of the threats." But, the FBI's own documents show that this simply isn't true.

http://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/mapping-fbi-documents-show-widespread-racial-and-religious-profiling

One of the dangers with this new "fusion" is that extraordinary measures taken in one locale are being applied nationally and indiscriminately -- as we read this morning in the story about the toddler put on the No Fly List. The "fusion" makes it possible to implement bad policy very quickly and since the lead authority is Federal and not local, there is very little oversight and less accountability, imo.