Three months ago @lapdcommission removed this disclaimer from of its motions accepting @LAPoliceFdtn gifts: "To the best of our knowledge, there are no potential factors that may give the appearance of a conflict of interest in accepting this donation."
https://twitter.com/LAPCFails/status/1371457089105584131
These gifts are how LAPD gets hooked on dangerous weapons that they use on the community. In 2002, @CommissBratton had @LAPoliceFdtn ask @Target (yes Target) for $200k to buy @PalantirTech for LAPD.
Once hooked on Palantir, LAPD went on to spend millions of tax $$ on it.
Once hooked on Palantir, LAPD went on to spend millions of tax $$ on it.
The @LAPoliceFdtn is also a front for the surveillance industry to buy influence with LAPD, as @awinston and @DarwinBondGraha have written: propublica.org/article/privat…
These gifts override the typical approval requirements for LAPD purchases. "A grant application to the foundation cuts all the red tape," @lapdcommission president @SteveSoboroff said in 2014.
It looks like they've now cut the ethical disclaimers too.
It looks like they've now cut the ethical disclaimers too.
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