Thread by @sh4keer

Check out how police reformers are working to increase LAPD's bureaucracy, training budgets, and data collection:

https://twitter.com/dotkohlhaas/status/1330260764825952258?s=21

Background: starting this July, LAPD convened several reform professionals, Obama administration officials, and nonprofit executives as an "Advisory Committee on Building Trust and Equity." LAPD announced this as "groundbreaking reforms."

This committee recently sent LAPD a draft of proposed reforms. Nearly every single proposal increases police bureaucracy, data collection/sharing, and training. The rest is naive platitudes like this:

They even propose surveillance bureaucracy laws like what @STOPSpyingNY enacted this summer in New York and @ACLU is pushing nationally (aclu.org/legal-document…)

Surveillance bureaucracy like that expands policing. @stoplapdspying wrote about this in June stoplapdspying.org/wp-content/upl…, and we also put out this lovely zine:

https://twitter.com/sh4keer/status/1281688078873063424

For an example of this, see how the Advisory Committee talks about predictive surveillance: they ask LAPD to "eliminate" it, "prohibit" use of AI in it, and also require transparency/hearings "prior to using it." How the fuck do you all three of those?

It might seem absurd to think you can at same time "prohibit" something while also "using" it. But that's the whole idea of these surveillance bureaucracy laws: pretend to restrict surveillance while in fact creating pathways for it. stoplapdspying.org/wp-content/upl…