If you want to learn more about what the Senate, and Dick Durbin specially, can do to protect our rights, I wrote about it here chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/6/2398…

No wonder people have such a low opinion of politicians. For years the FBI has been doing searches of people in the US under the guise of national security. Now the debate is to just give special protections to Congress and drastically *expand* who can get spied on.

hilarious how often moving jobs overseas and paying terrible wages is disguised as “amazing tech”

BTW, its worth pointing out that the metrics that the City Council wants the police to collect in this new ordinance actually _incentivizes_ them to go on *more* dead-end calls, more stop and frisk, more suspicionless searches...

The problem is that most of the data shared publicly is controlled by the police and its all junk. For example, something like 30% of all SS alerts are marked as 'probably gunshots' by CPD and considered *towards* its accuracy numbers. page 3 here documentcloud.org/documents/2104…

nytimes.com/2024/03/27/tec…

ugh, please don't make me read about Hegel.

The officers reported an aggravated assault with a weapon against them.

For a long time, the Atlanta Police Foundation has been facilitating the building of Cop City as a private entity to avoid any kind of oversight by the public. Our new lawsuit challenges their secrecy and demands records from APF about #CopCity .

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un.

BREAKING: Mayor Brandon Johnson is expected to announce that he won’t renew the city’s controversial contract with ShotSpotter, making good on a key campaign promise to do away with the gunshot detection system that has come under heavy fire.
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BREAKING: in a stunning rebuke of surveillance tech, the City of Chicago will be cancelling its contract with #ShotSpotter chicago.suntimes.com/2024/02/13/may…

If you have a few dollars, my friend Abdullah is raising money for the people of Gaza.

ShotSpotter has little impact on arresting shooters, Cook County prosecutors' report finds CBS Chicago

'ShotSpotter is an expensive tool that provides minimal return on investment to the prosecution of gun violence.'

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