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NEW: Two never-before-seen training manuals reveal how the LAPD has taught its officers to use Palantir Gotham, one of the most secretive, controversial, and powerful law enforcement tools in the world.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/training-documents-palantir-lapd?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
The documents show how Palantir helped the LAPD construct a vast database that lists the names, phone numbers, friendships, jobs — of the guilty and innocent.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/training-documents-palantir-lapd?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
The training material also reveals that once the LAPD puts a name into the database, for whatever reason, that person becomes a data point in a massive police surveillance system. And only a court order can remove them.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/training-documents-palantir-lapd?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
The LAPD used to use LASER, which generated a list of "Chronic Offenders" for officers to target — people who may not have even been suspected of a crime, but were picked out by an algorithm.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/training-documents-palantir-lapd?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
Criminologists decried it as racist. The LAPD's inspector general couldn't find that it actually reduced crime. So it was abandoned in 2019.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/training-documents-palantir-lapd?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
But now, LAPD officers are feeding even more data into Palantir Gotham to create lists of people who they say might commit a crime in the future. Critics say it's just broken windows policing with more algorithms.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/training-documents-palantir-lapd?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
Gee, i wonder if this tech/data will be abused?!
Aren't they all
@MayorOfLA this has to go!
@jayedelson @edelsonpc @KellerRohrback
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