…state and local police all over the US use a range of automated tools, including facial recognition, license plate readers, StingRays (cell-site simulators), predictive policing, video analysis tools and more, to create advanced systems of surveillance with little oversight, all built largely out of the public’s view despite their reach into the lives of ordinary Americans…
How Police Departments Make Millions by Seizing Property…
When a man barged into Isiah Kinloch’s apartment and broke a bottle over his head, the North Charleston resident called 911. After cops arrived on that day in 2015, they searched the injured man’s home and found an ounce of marijuana. So they took $1,800 in cash from his apartment and kept it. When Eamon Cools-Lartigue was driving […]
The FBI Has Collected 430,000 Iris Scans in a So-Called ‘Pilot Program’…
Since [the FBI] its launch in 2013, the program has stockpiled iris scans from 434,000 arrestees…