Thread by @drimcalban

TTP Friday. Turn off your beeps and bings for a minute or fifty.
ICS, Incident Command System is an Operating System for people interacting as parts of public agencies, for a demonstration or a disaster, or an exercise. In this case, protest plans by cops at demos. King Co Sh

Plain Clothes Element is a euphemism for the old term, Police Spies. Pairs usually, working a crowd in pairs of pairs or trios of pairs. Wanna track that roof standing protester to a quiet takedown corner? These your guys.

Using training rosters to find out the commonality in who's assigned, what classes did most of them attend? This in turn makes lists of other potential nouns in that PRA for records of what happened at the demo. Other participants as well, across agencies. Linked. Spiracies.

And that is how you get from an ICS, about Agency KCSO, to a list of names of SAT officers for Seattle, another agency, without asking EITHER agency, for a damn thing except one ICS sheet. About a separate protest, but you asked for all within (date range).

Teasing out the lists of who's unmentionable in public records is a duty of any serious journalistic enterprise in the criminal Just Us beat. And it turns out, that it's easy enough to do with some creative use of public records and changes of career status long term. Camping.

Camping newbies at the spawn point is a strategy, often useful for keeping a server free of assholes who don't meet basic requirements for civility, like not having a Gab account or not being a pepe meme stash. Collect on early cops, collect on training sequences, correlate.

Prior work from more direct requests shows what they want to hide under those black boxes. Not all, some, and the correlation helps pin down who's whom.

Deets about the SAT for SPD, and some eventual illustrations but you gotta wait.

More deets SPD SAT Strategic Assessment Teams (Police Spies at protests and as you can see, Drug Cops from Way Back, for the most part).

Deets go on for a while, sorry. Did say to suppress the beeps and boops at the beginning.

And the end of those deets. Not a one-class-links-them-all situation, but of course you can't deny the thoughline on these is Drug War Blowback. Train cops to be secret squirrels, you will get a department that uses secret squirrels to solve OTHER "problems."

Officer Ritter was announced on stage at the Milo Y event at UW, so we know what he looks like here in this situation where he is doing SAT.

Early Arrival, similar profiles and clustering can all start to give away the game quickly.

Identified by another researcher and sent to me or posted on TW before.

The rest of the ICS 204 (detail participants and roles) for that day:

If you're sitting there wondering what could be done with that phone number list and a historical track of their positions on a given day in a given space, you are way behind Kitsap Sheriff's office, which sued a friend of mine ten years ago to keep their cell phone bills secret.

Last but not least, why this is bad. Association is your right, and it goes away if you can't tell the players without a program and a line up.

That picture? Taken by the Grays Harbor Sheriff's Drug Task Force, looking at Olympia PMR in May 2006 in Aberdeen, Washington. SAT are just political drug cops, Red Squads without the title.