<story><title>Sheriff’s Office letter targets residents for ‘increased accountability’</title><url>https://www.tampabay.com/investigations/2021/07/24/pasco-sheriffs-office-letter-targets-residents-for-increased-accountability/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>This article is a prime example of law enforcement passing the buck of responsibility for their own actions to a black box system by claiming that the system&amp;#x27;s output is &amp;quot;unbiased&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;“You may wonder why you were enrolled in this program,” the letter continues. “You were selected as a result of an evaluation of your recent criminal behavior using an unbiased, evidence-based risk assessment designed to identify prolific offenders in our community. As a result of this designation, we will go to great efforts to encourage change in your life through enhanced support and increased accountability.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Last year, a Tampa Bay Times investigation revealed that the Sheriff’s Office creates lists of people it considers likely to break the law based on criminal histories, social networks and other unspecified intelligence. The agency sends deputies to their homes repeatedly, often without a search warrant or probable cause for an arrest.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now law enforcement gets to absolve themselves of accusations of bias or targetting because they assume that their computers can&amp;#x27;t be &amp;quot;biased&amp;quot;, even though they only buy systems that confirm their own hunches about which people are criminals or not.&lt;p&gt;If anyone complains, they can say they were only doing what the supposedly unbiased system told them to do, after all.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sheriff’s Office letter targets residents for ‘increased accountability’</title><url>https://www.tampabay.com/investigations/2021/07/24/pasco-sheriffs-office-letter-targets-residents-for-increased-accountability/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cartoonworld</author><text>Reading the articles, I&amp;#x27;ve found the Pasco Sheriff ILP manual[0] in question which was obtained by Tampa Bay Times. The section specifically relating to kids is on Page 70. Interesting read, though I haven&amp;#x27;t had much time to ingest all the details.&lt;p&gt;It appears as if the sheriffs have been creating dossiers since 2011. Is sheriffs really this well funded in Florida? Where i am from, the sheriff is essentially the court agent, transporting prisoners, seizing defaulted property, serving some process, etc&lt;p&gt;If you are well informed, I am interested in learning about the analytics and tools they are using. The report mentions CompStat, Problem Oriented Policing and a methodology called SARA (scan assess respond analyze) as well as post-9&amp;#x2F;11 derived information sharing developments. They have ALPR and video feeds from some in their community as well they are using, and also mention in passing facial recognition to identify the unidentified.. uh whoever.&lt;p&gt;[0] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.documentcloud.org&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;20412738-ilp_manual012918&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.documentcloud.org&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;20412738-ilp_manual0...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>