The Appeal
The Appeal
The Appeal
Episode 5: Rise of Silicon Valley-Assisted Pre-Crime
31 minutes Posted Jun 20, 2018 at 5:34 pm.
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Data corporations like Palantir are teaming up with police departments to create real time “probable offender” lists of thousands of mostly African American and Latino people. These lists, and other “predictive policing” tools, create a feedback loop, trapping people of color and the poor in a cycle of monitoring, arrests, and further monitoring. The result is a dystopian system of surveillance and pre-crime. Our guest, Appeal journalist George Joseph, got his hands on confidential LAPD documents detailing these efforts.