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@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-08-10 19:06:31

This is the perfect expression of a theme that never shows up in mass media:
Police are running out of legitimate work and are willing to invent new work solely to keep their jobs.
Crime rates have dropped precipitously over the past few decades, with some spikes around the financial crisis and pandemic. In a sane society, we would have also been reducing police budgets and headcounts
(See also: #Freikorps

Oakland Privacy (@oaklandprivacy@mastodon.social)
Flock’s nationwide license plate network is now using AI to label driving patterns as “suspicious.” This shifts it from tracking vehicles of interest to actively generating suspicion. https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious #Surveillance #AI #Privacy #DigitalRights #TechAccountability