Border Patrol is running secretive predictive policing units that analyze Americans’ financial activity and other data, then feed that intelligence to local police who pull people over who are not suspected of any specific crime, but which the government thinks may be worth searching, 404 Media has found.
The units, the name of which 404 Media is revealing here for the first time, are called Predictive Intelligence Targeting Teams (PITT). In one case, a PITT analyzed the financial activity of a man who was driving across Montana, and local authorities stopped him under the pretense of an obstructed license plate and charged him with a DUI.
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Another drop in the ocean of 4th Amendment violations.
“For operational security reasons, we do not discuss specific analytical methods, data sources, targeting criteria, investigative techniques, system capabilities, or deployment details. Public disclosure of such information could compromise law enforcement operations and investigations as well as creating safety risks for agents and the public,” the statement added.
If we tell you all the illegal shit we’re doing then we won’t be able to do it anymore
So…they are arresting people for their “potential” to commit a crime.
Well…I’m old now and I don’t have much “potential” left in me. They should have arrested me when I had my MOST potential, just before I was circumcised. THAT’s when it all started.
Did you genuflect towards Mar-a-Lago three times today? No? Well, there’s your crime.
I’m old. I genuflected and I can’t get up!
It’s called the Department of PreCrime. Here’s a leaked photo of their state of the art predictive facility.
“Great! Now I have a cold.”
“You said that would happen!! You ARE a pre-cog!!”
This is Minority Report shit
*shitty minority report
This is the slopped out version.
local authorities stopped him under the pretense of an obstructed license plate and charged him with a DUI.
Yeah cops will just make up anything if they really want to pull you over.
They often don’t have to. There was a quote that I’m currently unable to find that is paraphrased ‘If I want to pull someone over, I just follow them for 5 minutes, they’re guaranteed to break a law at some point’ Stuff like failing to properly signal, speeding, going too slow, rolling stop at an intersection, etc. Hell, if they follow you in the passing lane for a couple of minutes they can get you for not yielding the lane.
A cop once tailgated me with highbeams on for a solid 5 minutes and pulled me over when I sped up to fucking SEE
Warren Buffet of all people said something similar, if the cop follows you for a couple of hours they will find a violation, I am paraphrasing. He actually has said a lot of things that are good.
Buffet seems to actually live in reality somehow
Future crimes division
Minority Report?
Use cash
Monero ftw
You don’t think you’ll look like an outlier if you have way less purchasing history on record than most people with your income? I’d think those would be the first people they’d go for.
Exactly. They’re looking for people carrying cash or goods they can steal.
Why bully people for fun when they can bully people for fun and profit?
That is often quite true. Never tell the police of cash you have, never keep it where they can find it.
People have been robbed by the police while holding and presenting a bank receipt for pulling that money out for a legitimate purpose.
On the other hand, the swells can shut your entire bank account down under some pretense and there is nothing you can do about it.
I lean towards cash being the better bet at this point, but you need a mix.
There’s still a lot of people who use cash. Particularly old racist white people, which the police love
Oh that’s totally fucked.
Palantir USAGE probably, you know full well they only target Democrats and POCs, while ignoring white supremecists.
