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. buzzfeednews.com/article/caroli…
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. buzzfeednews.com/article/caroli…
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. buzzfeednews.com/article/caroli…
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. buzzfeednews.com/article/caroli…
Criminologists decried it as racist. The LAPD's inspector general couldn't find that it actually reduced crime. So it was abandoned in 2019. buzzfeednews.com/article/caroli…
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. buzzfeednews.com/article/caroli…
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