Unlike many cities, NYC allows the police to deploy surveillance tools without oversight or accountability from the City Council. A new @BrennanCenter chart tracks the scope & impact of NYPD’s expansive surveillance arsenal. Here’s what’s at stake: brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
Racial inequalities: tools like facial recognition cannot reliably identify people of color, and predictive policing systems threaten to digitize the legacy of stop-and-frisk into black box algorithms. nytimes.com/2019/08/01/nyr…
Free Speech: NYPD has deployed license plate readers at mosques and tracked Black Lives Matter protests online. This tendency to monitor 1A-protected activity goes back decades and is why they are under a court monitored consent decree. brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…
Meanwhile, for black and brown New Yorkers, misunderstandings about their social media activity has landed them in a gang database or worse: brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…
Privacy: from offering kids soda as a pretense to secretly collect DNA samples, to covertly deploying drones at protests, NYPD is challenging reasonable expectations of privacy in invisible ways. nytimes.com/2019/08/15/nyr…
Because the NYPD insists on secrecy, this chart is incomplete. Most information we do have comes from journalists and advocates uncovering stories or fighting lengthy court battles to get basic transparency. It shouldn’t have to be this way. brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…
If NYPD wants to deploy 21st century technology, it needs to be subject to 21st century regulation. Cities from San Francisco to Somerville have already passed laws to hold their police accountable, New York has fallen behind. nytimes.com/2019/05/18/opi…
We need leadership from the highest levels of city government. A transparent and accountable police department is essential for rebuilding community trust. It’s time to schedule a hearing for the #POSTAct. @NYCSpeakerCoJo @DRichards13 brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
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