<story><title>Pasco, Florida’s predictive policing system monitors and harasses residents</title><url>https://www.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sheriff-targeted/intelligence-led-policing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HarryHirsch</author><text>&lt;i&gt;These floridian police are basically grooming kids to become criminals&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What if that was the point? The system is making work to justify its continued existence. The police aren&amp;#x27;t working for you, they are working for the sheriff, and these interest do not match.</text></item><item><author>jacobush</author><text>Except this surveillance machine is even more stupid. The USSR was at least ostensibly protecting its power structure from internal opposition.&lt;p&gt;These floridian police are basically grooming kids to become criminals by giving them records and harassing their families until they fall unto hardship.</text></item><item><author>Shengbo</author><text>Halfway into the article it started reminding me of the informant networks of the USSR. Officers peeping through windows, feeding data into the system about the target&amp;#x27;s friends and family while also fining them for any unrelated arbitrary misdemeanor. This is not what crime prevention looks like in a democracy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>save_ferris</author><text>Could be. The current fight around felons receiving their voting rights in Florida adds another incentive here: the justice system was&amp;#x2F;is being used to suppress votes by aggressively penalizing kids to take away their voting rights. You&amp;#x27;re basically picking who gets to vote at that point.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pasco, Florida’s predictive policing system monitors and harasses residents</title><url>https://www.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sheriff-targeted/intelligence-led-policing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HarryHirsch</author><text>&lt;i&gt;These floridian police are basically grooming kids to become criminals&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What if that was the point? The system is making work to justify its continued existence. The police aren&amp;#x27;t working for you, they are working for the sheriff, and these interest do not match.</text></item><item><author>jacobush</author><text>Except this surveillance machine is even more stupid. The USSR was at least ostensibly protecting its power structure from internal opposition.&lt;p&gt;These floridian police are basically grooming kids to become criminals by giving them records and harassing their families until they fall unto hardship.</text></item><item><author>Shengbo</author><text>Halfway into the article it started reminding me of the informant networks of the USSR. Officers peeping through windows, feeding data into the system about the target&amp;#x27;s friends and family while also fining them for any unrelated arbitrary misdemeanor. This is not what crime prevention looks like in a democracy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>non-entity</author><text>This is a sherrif too, so they&amp;#x27;re elected, not neccesarily by any sort of experience or merit.&lt;p&gt;Nobody likes to hear it, but I&amp;#x27;m willing to bet this person has been in office for a while. Tough on crime is popular among &amp;quot;model citizen&amp;quot; voters even if it utilizes dystopic tactics.</text></comment>