You must not be from around here. They are an untrained, reckless agency that violates the law left and right, entering homes without judicial warrants, ignoring the Constitution, and detaining or harming U.S. citizens. Their tactics are completely cruel. It blows my mind that I still find people who think they only detain 'illegal aliens.' They are trained to detain even those who are here legally and processing their papers the correct way, often waiting for them right outside the courts.
Police are responsible for violations of the law, not immigration. This also requires due process.
And frankly, the per capita rates for crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants is much lower than for citizens. If these violations and murders are what we really care about, we should have an armed enforcement groups that only focuses on citizens.
But if that sounds absurd to you, then you’re starting to get it.
As far as I understand it immigration violations fall under federal law which is not the responsibility of the police but of federal authorities like the FBI and, yes, ICE? Soon to be renamed NICE from what I've read with the 'N' standing for 'National' which would make for quite some word play in times ahead like 'watch out, NICE agents on their way'.
It's like a game to be the shittiest of the shittiest gov't official playing around with technology to surveillance state (and they never ever just do the right thing, they go all out on breaking the law because technology is fun)
While it's theoretically possible that this technology could work effectively, given the people involved, this project is probably a complete bamboozle that will divert funds away from enforcing the deportation of immigrants.
Nah, much like the app it’s all about plausible deniability. It’ll be crap… but they’ll just make it give positive matches to as many people as possible so they can be dragged off.
You're overthinking it. They're going to give Meta a lot of money for the existing glasses to do the same thing but slap a stamp called 'secure' on them.
It isn't, all that money they're asking for is a grift, you don't need tens of billions of dollars for ethnic cleansing, poorer countries and their dictators manage with much less. It makes ethnic cleansing a more profitable endeavor for these scum, and that money will go a long way for protecting them against the sheepish democrats that will use lawyers judges to go after them.
An "emergency" no-bid contract awarded to a company with connections to Trump that has increased from $2 million to $15 million. And doesn't fix any underlying issues with the pool leaks.
Small potatoes compared to estimated $7 billion in insider trades made on oil and betting markets, front running announcements on the illegal Iran war. [0]
> When performing his work as an undercover agent, Arctor goes by the name "Fred" and wears a "scramble suit" that conceals his identity from other officers. Then he is able to sit in a police facility and observe his housemates through "holo-scanners", audio-visual surveillance devices that are placed throughout the house.
When will we need to start wearing "scramble suits"
It's no secret they've been tracking people's faces as much as they can.
The morning of Pretti I was on Lyndale and there were two men wearing "press" jackets with DLSRs taking pictures of people's faces in the crowd. They were eventually recognized and yelled out, but it was quite an unnerving feeling.
This smells like a way to funnel money to someone. There's no way a small number of "Smart Glasses" will be cheap, and the warlord(s) in charge can spec it in ways to increase costs, funnelling even more money to that someone. Classic US grifting from the government, in my judgement. We should find out who made this decision, and it will be interesting to see who gets the contract(s) for it. As we've seen with DoD acquisition, even a failed program can keep the money spigot open for years, too.
I think it's both, they hope it helps them surveil better, they don't really mind if it doesn't or doesn't to the extent of it's cost, cause the right people still got paid.
The good excuse for the slush fund was $75 billion in supplementary funding Congress approved for ICE with no particular reason or budget. At this point all of ICE is a good excuse for a slush fund.
but then my bank and everyone watching my payment activity (yes, it is monitored and sold, and resold many times over) will know. Can I use crypto payment? Can I purchase crypto without all the legal hassle? can I pay in cash for some credit or token i can spend online anonymously? Nah..that'd make too much sense. With news paper all I needed was a few cents to purchase one, until the payment hassle is that simple, this isn't a good suggestion.
I was surprised at the volume of comments given that it's paywalled. It made me wonder if others had actually read the article or were just commenting on the headline.
Yes I know...it is not posted in this thread. In light of that, I am wondering if this conversation is happening amongst people who did not actually read the article.
Or just outright avoiding it. When Michael Reinhoel was shot in Lacey, WA, a few minutes away from me (and I was actually a paramedic at the time, on duty, but not dispatched to this), by the US Marshals, there was a distinct oddity that no-one really picked up on.
> A U.S. Marshals Service spokesperson said the task force attempted to arrest Reinoehl, and officers shot him after he produced a gun and fled on foot. The team included officers from the Pierce County Sheriff's Department
Wait, Pierce County? That County's border is miles away from unincorporated Lacey, and the "center" is effectively 30 miles (Lacey is a tri-city with Olympia and Tumwater, and Pierce County's seat is Tacoma). Why PCSO, and not Thurston County SO?
Well, the other agencies involved (like the WA DOC, which was an odd inclusion) don't (or didn't, this was 2020) wear bodycams. TCSO... does. PCSO... doesn't.
There was already a belief that he would not survive an encounter with LE, but without commenting on that, it's odd that you'd choose not to involve the agency who would ordinarily be responsible for that geographic area, just to use one from the next county.
So no bodycam footage of his final moments exists.
But when Democrats are back in power, they'll be for it. They'll issue these these exact same smart glasses, from this same vendor, to all law enforcement as the way to "Eliminate Trump's ICE."
First, read the post you linked before. Second, the "but the other side is bad too", even if true (and i am sure it will be true for some) is the most birdbrain take. Do you think the democrat will suddenly have 6 supreme court judges authorizing this kind of shit?
I'm not a fan of surveillance state, but I'm also not a fan of high crime and false arrests. If we're just tying up the police and having bloated budgets, we should get rid of publicly funded police and allow police to be a corporate benefit like healthcare.
