<story><title>After George Floyd’s murder, police built a surveillance machine in Minnesota</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/03/03/1046676/police-surveillance-minnesota-george-floyd/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rootusrootus</author><text>We really need someone to watch the watchers.  Like internal affairs but not part of the police.  A group that has police powers over the police but not over the citizenry, and who is not subject to police authority.  Give them legally mandated access to &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; police records.&lt;p&gt;It seems obvious.  Which probably means I&amp;#x27;m missing something.  Or it could just be that the police apparatus is so deeply embedded into the state political system already that it&amp;#x27;s not possible to put a check on their power.  Although some US states have citizen initiatives, so we could force the issue.  But then again, many citizens like a strong, unaccountable police force, so that is hardly a guarantee of success.</text></comment>
<story><title>After George Floyd’s murder, police built a surveillance machine in Minnesota</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/03/03/1046676/police-surveillance-minnesota-george-floyd/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tremon</author><text>&lt;i&gt;spokesperson Doug Neville wrote that OSN is “not an ongoing operation.”&lt;p&gt;However, according to emails obtained and reviewed as part of our investigation, the operation does appear to be actively ongoing [..] as “OSN 2.0”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This whitewashing of illegal&amp;#x2F;unethical activities by simply renaming them is so common, it must have a name?</text></comment>