WND:
In “2001: A Space Odyssey,” it was HAL, the “Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic” computer, that was ever-present.
In one county in Florida, it’s the “Program.”
A lawsuit filed by the Institute for Justice against Chris Nocco, the sheriff of Pasco County, alleges the department operation identifies people the sheriff’s office doesn’t likeand harasses them to make their “lives miserable until they move or sue.”
“Today, they sued,” IJ announced.
“Under the guise of ‘predictive policing,’ for the last 10 years the Pasco County sheriff’s department has used a crude computer algorithm to identify and target supposed ‘future criminals,'” the organization said in an announcement about its new case, brought in U.S. District Court in Tampa on behalf of Dalanea Taylor, Tammy Heilman, Darlene Deegan and Robert A. Jones III,” IJ said.
“Once identified, these supposed ‘prolific offenders’—many of whom are minors—are relentlessly surveilled and harassed. As a Tampa Bay Times in-depth investigation uncovered, police regularly show up at their homes unannounced and demand entry. If they or their parents don’t cooperate, police write tickets for petty violations, like missing house numbers or having grass that is too tall. As one former Pasco County deputy put it, they were under orders to ‘make their lives miserable until they move or sue.'” more
…just for the record, HAL was kind of an “in” joke because the letters are all arrived at as the one before each letter in “IBM” (hI, aB, lM), and then they just came up with cool-sounding stuff to make it sound like it meant something.
…and that’s you’re movie trivia moment for today….
I’m glad that this tyrannical sheriff is getting sued. He and his deputies should consider themselves lucky not to have been justifiably shot when barging without warrants into the homes of their victims (that’s called a “home invasion” in my book).
…seems like I saw something about pre-emptive policing before…what was it…oh yeah, this…
https://youtu.be/CTaz2K9MZHs
Minority Report…when fiction becomes reality.
Supernightshade: And the reason HAL plays “Daisy, Daisy” when it is being shut down is that was the first song played by a computer. Lots of in jokes in movies.
So instead of trying help people these assholes just pile on.
It does sound like more of a mayor/council thing though.
The entire department should be sued and fired and charged with every crime a prosecutor can come up with.
Also, the courts had to know something was up.
I wonder what the ethnic breakdown of the people that are being targeted is?
I once knew a part time game warden who acted like he was God. He harassed people so much he found a deer head in his mailbox and a note to back off. He didn’t. He finally got the message when the windshield of his truck was blown out while he was driving it. His wife made him stop or she would leave him. She should have anyway. He was a first class douche bag.
Funny, I remember something like this being proposed (or instigated) to help identify potentially “troubled” youth and to help direct them away from their path to crime and endless in/out of jail future…..Different tools in different hands I guess.
Sheriff, Deputies, County Council, Circuit Judge (or whatever they have there), local constabularies, and State Police had to be in on it – or somebody would have blown the whistle. And Sheriff is an elected position! Unless they use Dominion there, the people must have been OK with the County-organized persecutions, as well.
One of the reasons our founders shied away from “democracy.”
izlamo delenda est …
Wow.
Most departments have a bit different take on “community outreach”.